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2019 Osceola County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Osceola County, IA went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 877th 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 Osceola 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 06:30 | April 13, 2019 17:00 | 2d 10h | 824 | 20K |
| 2 | March 13, 2019 22:00 | March 14, 2019 05:00 | 7h | 316 | 664 |
| 3 | February 7, 2019 20:15 | February 8, 2019 01:30 | 5h 15m | 223 | 396 |
| 4 | April 11, 2019 02:30 | April 11, 2019 04:30 | 2h | 189 | 278 |
| 5 | March 10, 2019 02:00 | March 10, 2019 04:15 | 2h 15m | 178 | 347 |
| 6 | October 3, 2019 14:15 | October 3, 2019 16:30 | 2h 15m | 39 | 28 |
| 7 | June 21, 2019 00:45 | June 21, 2019 02:45 | 2h | 36 | 66 |
| 8 | July 8, 2019 19:15 | July 8, 2019 21:00 | 1h 45m | 20 | 30 |
| 9 | August 28, 2019 14:00 | August 28, 2019 16:00 | 2h | 20 | 38 |
| 10 | July 29, 2019 18:45 | July 29, 2019 22:00 | 3h 15m | 13 | 16 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 5 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 Osceola 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 |
| Lyon Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 34 min | 0.38 | 34 min | 0.38 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sibley - (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 ÷ 3,588 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. Osceola County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Osceola 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/osceola-county