County annual report · FIPS 19091
2016 Humboldt County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Humboldt County, IA went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 383rd 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 Humboldt 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 24, 2016 08:30 | March 25, 2016 01:30 | 17h | 5,243 | 24K |
| 2 | July 17, 2016 08:00 | July 18, 2016 14:15 | 1d 6h | 708 | 6,365 |
| 3 | July 27, 2016 23:45 | July 28, 2016 00:00 | 15m | 211 | 53 |
| 4 | September 7, 2016 17:30 | September 7, 2016 18:15 | 45m | 167 | 84 |
| 5 | July 23, 2016 08:45 | July 23, 2016 11:45 | 3h | 132 | 318 |
| 6 | April 27, 2016 15:15 | April 27, 2016 16:45 | 1h 30m | 112 | 37 |
| 7 | March 25, 2016 17:15 | March 25, 2016 17:30 | 15m | 100 | 25 |
| 8 | May 6, 2016 14:45 | May 6, 2016 22:00 | 7h 15m | 87 | 146 |
| 9 | April 26, 2016 19:45 | April 26, 2016 20:00 | 15m | 85 | 21 |
| 10 | June 8, 2016 23:15 | June 9, 2016 02:45 | 3h 30m | 78 | 156 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 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 Humboldt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2016 | 3.6 hrs | 1.64 | 83 min | 0.90 |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of West Bend | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Livermore- (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Renwick - (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 ÷ 3,507 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. Humboldt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Humboldt 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/humboldt-county