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2017 Osceola County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Osceola County, IA went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 739 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 96th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2477th 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 Osceola 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 | October 26, 2017 19:45 | October 26, 2017 20:45 | 1h | 225 | 214 |
| 2 | January 11, 2017 07:15 | January 11, 2017 07:45 | 30m | 115 | 58 |
| 3 | December 4, 2017 22:00 | December 4, 2017 23:30 | 1h 30m | 41 | 55 |
| 4 | August 12, 2017 07:00 | August 12, 2017 10:00 | 3h | 39 | 117 |
| 5 | August 31, 2017 01:00 | August 31, 2017 04:00 | 3h | 25 | 39 |
| 6 | August 19, 2017 01:45 | August 19, 2017 07:45 | 6h | 17 | 97 |
| 7 | September 24, 2017 20:45 | September 25, 2017 13:45 | 17h | 14 | 75 |
| 8 | August 21, 2017 20:15 | August 21, 2017 20:45 | 30m | 9 | 5 |
| 9 | May 16, 2017 09:15 | May 16, 2017 19:00 | 9h 45m | 6 | 33 |
| 10 | May 14, 2017 15:45 | May 14, 2017 17:15 | 1h 30m | 5 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 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 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.18 | 74 min | 0.78 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 55 min | 0.52 | 55 min | 0.52 |
| Lyon Rural Electric Coop | 2017 | 58 min | 1.03 | 58 min | 1.03 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/osceola-county