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2020 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2316th 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 Kossuth 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 10, 2020 11:15 | November 11, 2020 22:45 | 1d 11h | 1,212 | 5,901 |
| 2 | December 23, 2020 19:15 | December 24, 2020 20:00 | 1d | 430 | 1,135 |
| 3 | March 20, 2020 04:45 | March 20, 2020 14:15 | 9h 30m | 394 | 1,175 |
| 4 | February 18, 2020 01:00 | February 18, 2020 16:30 | 15h 30m | 392 | 1,001 |
| 5 | February 14, 2020 20:45 | February 15, 2020 02:30 | 5h 45m | 332 | 1,505 |
| 6 | January 30, 2020 15:45 | January 30, 2020 19:15 | 3h 30m | 306 | 129 |
| 7 | April 18, 2020 17:30 | April 18, 2020 17:45 | 15m | 246 | 62 |
| 8 | April 18, 2020 19:00 | April 18, 2020 19:15 | 15m | 246 | 62 |
| 9 | August 21, 2020 14:15 | August 21, 2020 16:00 | 1h 45m | 228 | 327 |
| 10 | February 28, 2020 03:45 | February 28, 2020 05:00 | 1h 15m | 195 | 244 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 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 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 48 min | 0.68 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 1.14 | 2.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 2.32 | 3.3 hrs | 2.22 |
| 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 91% of Iowa's customers in 2020; 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, 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/kossuth-county