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2016 O'Brien County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in O'Brien County, IA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 4,840 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1810th 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 O'Brien 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 | December 26, 2016 05:15 | December 26, 2016 07:00 | 1h 45m | 813 | 1,219 |
| 2 | February 5, 2016 22:15 | February 5, 2016 23:00 | 45m | 653 | 327 |
| 3 | June 18, 2016 01:00 | June 18, 2016 09:45 | 8h 45m | 578 | 1,022 |
| 4 | March 15, 2016 07:30 | March 15, 2016 09:45 | 2h 15m | 505 | 760 |
| 5 | November 18, 2016 17:30 | November 18, 2016 22:45 | 5h 15m | 222 | 296 |
| 6 | June 21, 2016 02:00 | June 21, 2016 02:15 | 15m | 142 | 36 |
| 7 | July 12, 2016 00:00 | July 12, 2016 03:45 | 3h 45m | 137 | 160 |
| 8 | July 13, 2016 13:30 | July 13, 2016 16:00 | 2h 30m | 137 | 206 |
| 9 | October 21, 2016 22:30 | October 22, 2016 00:30 | 2h | 82 | 115 |
| 10 | October 9, 2016 21:30 | October 9, 2016 22:45 | 1h 15m | 56 | 57 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 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 O'Brien 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 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 5.20 | 3.4 hrs | 5.20 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hartley - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Paullina - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Primghar - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sanborn - (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 ÷ 5,030 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. O'Brien County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), O'Brien 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/obrien-county