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2016 Osceola County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Osceola County, IA went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 724 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 95th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2167th 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 Osceola 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 | January 5, 2016 11:15 | January 5, 2016 11:30 | 15m | 475 | 119 |
| 2 | March 30, 2016 09:45 | March 30, 2016 11:00 | 1h 15m | 301 | 301 |
| 3 | July 10, 2016 19:00 | July 10, 2016 21:30 | 2h 30m | 46 | 47 |
| 4 | July 21, 2016 23:00 | July 22, 2016 00:45 | 1h 45m | 41 | 72 |
| 5 | August 11, 2016 09:00 | August 11, 2016 11:30 | 2h 30m | 35 | 32 |
| 6 | April 1, 2016 15:30 | April 1, 2016 17:15 | 1h 45m | 17 | 30 |
| 7 | May 22, 2016 05:00 | May 22, 2016 06:00 | 1h | 13 | 13 |
| 8 | May 26, 2016 06:00 | May 26, 2016 09:00 | 3h | 12 | 28 |
| 9 | March 10, 2016 14:15 | March 10, 2016 14:45 | 30m | 9 | 5 |
| 10 | June 6, 2016 06:30 | June 6, 2016 08:15 | 1h 45m | 9 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 2 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 Osceola 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.90 | 65 min | 0.70 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 5.20 | 3.4 hrs | 5.20 |
| Lyon Rural Electric Coop | 2016 | 85 min | 0.79 | 51 min | 0.74 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sibley - (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 ÷ 3,588 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. Osceola County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Osceola 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/osceola-county