County annual report · FIPS 19063
2016 Emmet County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Emmet County, IA went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 3,535 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 87th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1971st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Emmet County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 15, 2016 09:15 | March 15, 2016 12:00 | 2h 45m | 560 | 751 |
| 2 | June 10, 2016 23:00 | June 11, 2016 20:00 | 21h | 281 | 91 |
| 3 | January 26, 2016 15:30 | January 26, 2016 17:30 | 2h | 242 | 484 |
| 4 | September 5, 2016 13:00 | September 5, 2016 13:15 | 15m | 240 | 60 |
| 5 | July 7, 2016 07:00 | July 7, 2016 13:45 | 6h 45m | 153 | 694 |
| 6 | October 16, 2016 10:15 | October 16, 2016 20:00 | 9h 45m | 69 | 418 |
| 7 | June 18, 2016 02:15 | June 18, 2016 06:45 | 4h 30m | 59 | 251 |
| 8 | December 26, 2016 08:15 | December 26, 2016 12:45 | 4h 30m | 52 | 121 |
| 9 | September 5, 2016 15:30 | September 5, 2016 19:00 | 3h 30m | 33 | 66 |
| 10 | September 9, 2016 20:15 | September 9, 2016 22:45 | 2h 30m | 22 | 44 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Emmet County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2016 | 55 min | 0.50 | 54 min | 0.49 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Estherville - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Iowa's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,934 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Emmet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Emmet County, IA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/iowa/emmet-county