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2017 Humboldt County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Humboldt County, IA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 8,756 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1478th 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 Humboldt 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 | February 24, 2017 03:00 | February 25, 2017 03:30 | 1d | 3,544 | 4,291 |
| 2 | May 17, 2017 02:30 | May 17, 2017 17:00 | 14h 30m | 464 | 1,966 |
| 3 | August 24, 2017 12:30 | August 24, 2017 14:00 | 1h 30m | 420 | 440 |
| 4 | November 24, 2017 16:45 | November 24, 2017 18:45 | 2h | 338 | 252 |
| 5 | September 1, 2017 15:30 | September 1, 2017 17:00 | 1h 30m | 212 | 213 |
| 6 | June 2, 2017 22:45 | June 3, 2017 00:45 | 2h | 83 | 148 |
| 7 | February 19, 2017 10:00 | February 19, 2017 11:15 | 1h 15m | 73 | 55 |
| 8 | August 27, 2017 13:15 | August 27, 2017 13:45 | 30m | 65 | 33 |
| 9 | June 1, 2017 01:00 | June 1, 2017 02:30 | 1h 30m | 62 | 47 |
| 10 | December 5, 2017 18:15 | December 5, 2017 19:30 | 1h 15m | 56 | 56 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.6 hrs | 0.91 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/humboldt-county