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2019 Humboldt County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Humboldt County, IA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 6,936 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2056th 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 Humboldt 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 22, 2019 00:45 | May 22, 2019 07:45 | 7h | 609 | 1,322 |
| 2 | April 26, 2019 03:45 | April 26, 2019 07:15 | 3h 30m | 465 | 1,177 |
| 3 | October 18, 2019 18:15 | October 18, 2019 20:00 | 1h 45m | 378 | 241 |
| 4 | April 12, 2019 00:00 | April 12, 2019 06:45 | 6h 45m | 335 | 1,431 |
| 5 | October 11, 2019 19:15 | October 11, 2019 23:30 | 4h 15m | 269 | 407 |
| 6 | June 24, 2019 18:30 | June 24, 2019 19:45 | 1h 15m | 219 | 57 |
| 7 | May 21, 2019 18:30 | May 21, 2019 22:00 | 3h 30m | 108 | 83 |
| 8 | April 11, 2019 20:30 | April 11, 2019 23:00 | 2h 30m | 103 | 56 |
| 9 | April 9, 2019 15:30 | April 9, 2019 16:15 | 45m | 82 | 62 |
| 10 | March 18, 2019 22:00 | March 19, 2019 00:30 | 2h 30m | 71 | 178 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 8 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 Humboldt 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 | 75 min | 0.96 |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of West Bend | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Livermore- (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Renwick - (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 ÷ 3,507 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. Humboldt County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Humboldt 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/humboldt-county