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2017 O'Brien County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in O'Brien County, IA went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1443rd 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 O'Brien 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 | January 5, 2017 22:15 | January 5, 2017 22:30 | 15m | 652 | 163 |
| 2 | September 24, 2017 20:45 | September 25, 2017 13:45 | 17h | 441 | 866 |
| 3 | May 16, 2017 08:45 | May 16, 2017 20:00 | 11h 15m | 397 | 1,646 |
| 4 | November 6, 2017 17:00 | November 6, 2017 18:15 | 1h 15m | 376 | 175 |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 22:45 | May 2, 2017 01:45 | 3h | 188 | 417 |
| 6 | November 2, 2017 23:00 | November 3, 2017 04:00 | 5h | 175 | 829 |
| 7 | September 17, 2017 11:30 | September 19, 2017 12:15 | 2d | 168 | 5,242 |
| 8 | January 2, 2017 10:15 | January 2, 2017 12:15 | 2h | 162 | 286 |
| 9 | November 28, 2017 20:15 | November 28, 2017 22:00 | 1h 45m | 108 | 94 |
| 10 | May 23, 2017 21:45 | May 24, 2017 13:00 | 15h 15m | 60 | 862 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 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 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 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 55 min | 0.52 | 55 min | 0.52 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/obrien-county