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2019 Emmet County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Emmet County, IA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 5,726 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2509th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Emmet County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 11, 2019 00:30 | April 11, 2019 04:00 | 3h 30m | 985 | 1,585 |
| 2 | April 11, 2019 07:30 | April 12, 2019 03:15 | 19h 45m | 611 | 2,472 |
| 3 | February 11, 2019 23:45 | February 12, 2019 00:45 | 1h | 239 | 239 |
| 4 | April 26, 2019 14:45 | April 26, 2019 15:15 | 30m | 236 | 118 |
| 5 | July 15, 2019 13:30 | July 22, 2019 16:45 | 7d 3h | 159 | 475 |
| 6 | March 14, 2019 07:30 | March 14, 2019 12:15 | 4h 45m | 111 | 171 |
| 7 | June 4, 2019 12:45 | June 4, 2019 13:15 | 30m | 86 | 43 |
| 8 | April 16, 2019 15:00 | April 16, 2019 16:30 | 1h 30m | 69 | 87 |
| 9 | September 8, 2019 18:15 | September 8, 2019 19:00 | 45m | 66 | 50 |
| 10 | December 1, 2019 12:00 | December 1, 2019 13:15 | 1h 15m | 66 | 83 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 6 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 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/iowa/emmet-county