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2019 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1922nd 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 Kossuth 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 | September 19, 2019 04:30 | September 19, 2019 07:30 | 3h | 1,054 | 3,161 |
| 2 | September 18, 2019 13:00 | September 18, 2019 17:30 | 4h 30m | 753 | 832 |
| 3 | April 11, 2019 01:00 | April 13, 2019 15:00 | 2d 14h | 415 | 3,236 |
| 4 | March 12, 2019 19:45 | March 12, 2019 23:15 | 3h 30m | 407 | 223 |
| 5 | September 25, 2019 00:00 | September 25, 2019 11:00 | 11h | 368 | 513 |
| 6 | March 10, 2019 06:00 | March 11, 2019 15:30 | 1d 9h | 356 | 850 |
| 7 | April 26, 2019 14:45 | April 26, 2019 15:15 | 30m | 339 | 170 |
| 8 | December 5, 2019 05:15 | December 5, 2019 07:00 | 1h 45m | 334 | 583 |
| 9 | September 23, 2019 08:00 | September 23, 2019 10:30 | 2h 30m | 280 | 700 |
| 10 | August 29, 2019 05:00 | August 29, 2019 11:45 | 6h 45m | 279 | 1,814 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 19 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 2019; 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, 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/kossuth-county