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2016 Howard County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Howard County, IA went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1016th 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 Howard 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 | September 21, 2016 13:00 | September 21, 2016 14:15 | 1h 15m | 1,025 | 603 |
| 2 | March 4, 2016 21:45 | March 4, 2016 23:45 | 2h | 858 | 611 |
| 3 | February 19, 2016 15:00 | February 19, 2016 18:00 | 3h | 618 | 312 |
| 4 | November 19, 2016 02:00 | November 19, 2016 03:45 | 1h 45m | 606 | 814 |
| 5 | September 6, 2016 23:00 | September 7, 2016 11:45 | 12h 45m | 595 | 1,346 |
| 6 | June 22, 2016 15:00 | June 22, 2016 18:30 | 3h 30m | 553 | 1,238 |
| 7 | August 24, 2016 02:00 | August 24, 2016 18:00 | 16h | 355 | 227 |
| 8 | March 24, 2016 10:00 | March 24, 2016 16:30 | 6h 30m | 352 | 1,937 |
| 9 | March 25, 2016 05:30 | March 25, 2016 07:15 | 1h 45m | 352 | 616 |
| 10 | April 1, 2016 10:45 | April 1, 2016 13:45 | 3h | 352 | 607 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland Power Coop | 2016 | 89 min | 0.86 | 89 min | 0.86 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 | 89 min | 1.07 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,177 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county