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2018 Emmet County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Emmet County, IA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 6,145 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2296th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Emmet County, 2018
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 22, 2018 11:30 | January 22, 2018 15:30 | 4h | 433 | 931 |
| 2 | March 5, 2018 15:45 | March 5, 2018 20:30 | 4h 45m | 280 | 719 |
| 3 | January 22, 2018 18:45 | January 22, 2018 20:15 | 1h 30m | 241 | 360 |
| 4 | April 14, 2018 13:45 | April 15, 2018 02:45 | 13h | 154 | 1,239 |
| 5 | April 15, 2018 03:30 | April 15, 2018 22:00 | 18h 30m | 117 | 1,340 |
| 6 | June 10, 2018 12:00 | June 10, 2018 14:45 | 2h 45m | 85 | 106 |
| 7 | January 22, 2018 21:45 | January 23, 2018 00:15 | 2h 30m | 54 | 135 |
| 8 | August 27, 2018 20:30 | August 27, 2018 22:00 | 1h 30m | 54 | 68 |
| 9 | September 20, 2018 23:00 | September 21, 2018 04:00 | 5h | 42 | 96 |
| 10 | May 11, 2018 04:00 | May 11, 2018 06:45 | 2h 45m | 39 | 101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 5 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 Emmet County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.06 | 88 min | 0.98 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 | 68 min | 0.82 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Estherville - (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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,934 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. Emmet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Emmet County, IA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/iowa/emmet-county