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2017 Dickinson County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dickinson County, IA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1695th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dickinson County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 21, 2017 19:45 | August 21, 2017 21:00 | 1h 15m | 4,160 | 2,089 |
| 2 | November 16, 2017 15:15 | November 16, 2017 21:30 | 6h 15m | 1,308 | 512 |
| 3 | June 28, 2017 07:15 | June 28, 2017 13:45 | 6h 30m | 1,300 | 1,415 |
| 4 | October 20, 2017 04:15 | October 20, 2017 05:30 | 1h 15m | 781 | 975 |
| 5 | October 25, 2017 15:45 | October 25, 2017 16:30 | 45m | 567 | 425 |
| 6 | December 26, 2017 19:30 | December 27, 2017 13:30 | 18h | 567 | 2,154 |
| 7 | December 27, 2017 20:15 | December 27, 2017 21:00 | 45m | 566 | 284 |
| 8 | June 30, 2017 13:45 | June 30, 2017 15:15 | 1h 30m | 394 | 591 |
| 9 | July 26, 2017 18:00 | July 26, 2017 20:15 | 2h 15m | 379 | 669 |
| 10 | August 9, 2017 17:15 | August 9, 2017 18:30 | 1h 15m | 201 | 197 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 13 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Dickinson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 48 min | 0.56 | 48 min | 0.56 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2017 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 55 min | 0.52 | 55 min | 0.52 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Milford - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,731 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. Dickinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickinson County, IA annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/iowa/dickinson-county