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2020 Emmet County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Emmet County, IA went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 2,378 customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2851st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Emmet County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 11, 2020 16:30 | November 11, 2020 19:30 | 3h | 319 | 653 |
| 2 | December 23, 2020 22:30 | December 24, 2020 19:45 | 21h 15m | 248 | 252 |
| 3 | May 3, 2020 05:45 | May 3, 2020 06:15 | 30m | 231 | 61 |
| 4 | June 16, 2020 12:30 | June 16, 2020 14:45 | 2h 15m | 130 | 38 |
| 5 | August 22, 2020 13:30 | August 22, 2020 15:15 | 1h 45m | 86 | 110 |
| 6 | May 1, 2020 15:30 | May 1, 2020 16:45 | 1h 15m | 83 | 45 |
| 7 | June 21, 2020 22:45 | June 22, 2020 03:15 | 4h 30m | 68 | 304 |
| 8 | March 5, 2020 11:15 | March 5, 2020 14:00 | 2h 45m | 57 | 102 |
| 9 | April 24, 2020 04:00 | April 24, 2020 06:00 | 2h | 46 | 83 |
| 10 | September 6, 2020 07:45 | September 6, 2020 16:45 | 9h | 42 | 130 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 48 min | 0.68 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 2.32 | 3.3 hrs | 2.22 |
| 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 91% of Iowa's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/iowa/emmet-county