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2019 Howard County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Howard County, IA went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1119th 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 Howard 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 | May 27, 2019 17:45 | May 27, 2019 23:00 | 5h 15m | 2,447 | 1,779 |
| 2 | April 10, 2019 23:15 | April 12, 2019 22:15 | 1d 23h | 2,268 | 8,720 |
| 3 | June 30, 2019 21:00 | July 2, 2019 02:00 | 1d 5h | 930 | 3,241 |
| 4 | August 6, 2019 02:00 | August 6, 2019 04:30 | 2h 30m | 586 | 1,131 |
| 5 | October 1, 2019 16:00 | October 1, 2019 16:45 | 45m | 510 | 383 |
| 6 | June 1, 2019 13:00 | June 1, 2019 13:45 | 45m | 492 | 177 |
| 7 | May 21, 2019 22:00 | May 22, 2019 01:15 | 3h 15m | 444 | 557 |
| 8 | June 5, 2019 19:00 | June 5, 2019 19:30 | 30m | 443 | 199 |
| 9 | January 31, 2019 15:30 | January 31, 2019 16:45 | 1h 15m | 230 | 287 |
| 10 | February 12, 2019 21:45 | February 12, 2019 22:15 | 30m | 229 | 115 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 19 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland Power Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.14 | 1.7 hrs | 1.14 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.82 | 86 min | 0.70 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 4,177 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard 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/howard-county