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2020 Howard County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Howard County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 7,758 customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2314th 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 Howard 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 15, 2020 17:45 | November 15, 2020 18:45 | 1h | 595 | 595 |
| 2 | January 31, 2020 07:15 | January 31, 2020 09:30 | 2h 15m | 437 | 983 |
| 3 | May 28, 2020 19:15 | May 29, 2020 02:15 | 7h | 434 | 2,102 |
| 4 | April 17, 2020 15:15 | April 17, 2020 17:45 | 2h 30m | 433 | 111 |
| 5 | June 29, 2020 15:45 | June 29, 2020 16:15 | 30m | 347 | 174 |
| 6 | September 6, 2020 07:30 | September 6, 2020 11:15 | 3h 45m | 304 | 491 |
| 7 | August 2, 2020 12:15 | August 2, 2020 22:30 | 10h 15m | 233 | 558 |
| 8 | June 26, 2020 17:30 | June 27, 2020 00:15 | 6h 45m | 156 | 601 |
| 9 | November 24, 2020 19:00 | November 24, 2020 20:15 | 1h 15m | 134 | 104 |
| 10 | June 2, 2020 14:15 | June 2, 2020 15:30 | 1h 15m | 122 | 31 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland Power Coop | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.14 | 2.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2020 | 55 min | 0.47 | 55 min | 0.47 |
| 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 91% of Iowa's customers in 2020; 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, 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/howard-county