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2018 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1977th 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 Kossuth 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 | June 9, 2018 18:30 | June 11, 2018 15:00 | 1d 20h | 1,179 | 540 |
| 2 | March 24, 2018 06:00 | March 25, 2018 18:00 | 1d 12h | 1,110 | 4,405 |
| 3 | November 12, 2018 07:00 | November 12, 2018 08:45 | 1h 45m | 385 | 674 |
| 4 | August 14, 2018 08:15 | August 14, 2018 10:15 | 2h | 351 | 680 |
| 5 | January 22, 2018 18:45 | January 22, 2018 23:30 | 4h 45m | 349 | 526 |
| 6 | February 27, 2018 03:00 | February 27, 2018 19:00 | 16h | 341 | 1,712 |
| 7 | April 15, 2018 00:00 | April 15, 2018 19:15 | 19h 15m | 320 | 743 |
| 8 | February 19, 2018 15:15 | February 19, 2018 20:30 | 5h 15m | 204 | 816 |
| 9 | August 22, 2018 07:15 | August 22, 2018 09:45 | 2h 30m | 189 | 473 |
| 10 | December 15, 2018 15:30 | December 15, 2018 17:30 | 2h | 160 | 300 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 10 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 | 75 min | 0.96 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.06 | 88 min | 0.98 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 | 1.7 hrs | 1.14 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 | 68 min | 0.82 |
| 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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2018; 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, 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/kossuth-county