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2016 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1230th 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 Kossuth 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 13, 2016 09:30 | March 13, 2016 12:00 | 2h 30m | 1,015 | 1,048 |
| 2 | January 26, 2016 15:30 | January 26, 2016 17:45 | 2h 15m | 756 | 605 |
| 3 | May 29, 2016 15:00 | May 29, 2016 15:30 | 30m | 749 | 375 |
| 4 | July 17, 2016 07:15 | July 18, 2016 11:45 | 1d 4h | 683 | 1,572 |
| 5 | July 7, 2016 06:45 | July 7, 2016 20:30 | 13h 45m | 603 | 1,366 |
| 6 | June 10, 2016 20:30 | June 11, 2016 20:00 | 23h 30m | 582 | 6,327 |
| 7 | June 11, 2016 23:15 | June 12, 2016 04:00 | 4h 45m | 543 | 162 |
| 8 | June 14, 2016 23:00 | June 15, 2016 00:00 | 1h | 478 | 342 |
| 9 | July 18, 2016 13:00 | July 18, 2016 13:30 | 30m | 390 | 195 |
| 10 | August 2, 2016 08:15 | August 2, 2016 10:30 | 2h 15m | 390 | 878 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 18 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 Kossuth 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2016 | 55 min | 0.50 | 54 min | 0.49 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2016 | 89 min | 0.86 | 89 min | 0.86 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of West Bend | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bancroft Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Algona - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Burt | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Whittemore - (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 ÷ 7,698 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. Kossuth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kossuth 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/kossuth-county