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2017 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 8,289 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2015th 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 Kossuth 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 | July 10, 2017 06:30 | July 10, 2017 11:00 | 4h 30m | 1,164 | 2,427 |
| 2 | December 21, 2017 03:00 | December 21, 2017 05:15 | 2h 15m | 525 | 1,049 |
| 3 | November 1, 2017 19:00 | November 1, 2017 19:30 | 30m | 523 | 261 |
| 4 | November 24, 2017 16:30 | November 24, 2017 18:15 | 1h 45m | 458 | 296 |
| 5 | July 19, 2017 23:00 | July 20, 2017 03:30 | 4h 30m | 394 | 501 |
| 6 | December 5, 2017 18:15 | December 5, 2017 19:30 | 1h 15m | 195 | 195 |
| 7 | February 24, 2017 04:30 | February 24, 2017 12:00 | 7h 30m | 124 | 543 |
| 8 | June 9, 2017 21:15 | June 10, 2017 02:00 | 4h 45m | 100 | 451 |
| 9 | November 24, 2017 22:45 | November 25, 2017 00:30 | 1h 45m | 100 | 175 |
| 10 | November 29, 2017 18:00 | November 29, 2017 18:45 | 45m | 95 | 71 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 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 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2017 | 48 min | 0.56 | 48 min | 0.56 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 0.73 | 61 min | 0.58 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2017 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 |
| City of Algona - (IA) | 2017 | 15 min | 0.21 | - | - |
| 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 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 2017; 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, 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/kossuth-county