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2020 Humboldt County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Humboldt County, IA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1735th 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 Humboldt 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 | April 18, 2020 17:30 | April 18, 2020 17:45 | 15m | 2,281 | 570 |
| 2 | March 30, 2020 15:00 | March 30, 2020 15:15 | 15m | 2,258 | 565 |
| 3 | April 18, 2020 19:00 | April 18, 2020 19:15 | 15m | 2,228 | 557 |
| 4 | May 2, 2020 04:30 | May 2, 2020 04:45 | 15m | 1,807 | 452 |
| 5 | November 8, 2020 13:45 | November 8, 2020 16:45 | 3h | 1,394 | 877 |
| 6 | July 4, 2020 08:15 | July 4, 2020 10:30 | 2h 15m | 1,328 | 2,099 |
| 7 | March 10, 2020 15:45 | March 10, 2020 17:45 | 2h | 698 | 351 |
| 8 | November 10, 2020 09:45 | November 12, 2020 04:15 | 1d 18h | 494 | 1,918 |
| 9 | October 12, 2020 05:30 | October 12, 2020 11:00 | 5h 30m | 330 | 626 |
| 10 | August 20, 2020 07:30 | August 20, 2020 09:00 | 1h 30m | 282 | 329 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 19 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2020 | 18.3 hrs | 1.43 | 82 min | 0.79 |
| 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 91% of Iowa's customers in 2020; 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, 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/humboldt-county