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2020 Pocahontas County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pocahontas County, IA went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1410th 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 Pocahontas 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 16:00 | November 11, 2020 23:15 | 7h 15m | 893 | 1,575 |
| 2 | November 10, 2020 12:30 | November 11, 2020 06:00 | 17h 30m | 853 | 1,398 |
| 3 | December 23, 2020 19:00 | December 24, 2020 19:15 | 1d | 723 | 6,780 |
| 4 | August 10, 2020 15:45 | August 11, 2020 01:15 | 9h 30m | 394 | 2,649 |
| 5 | August 9, 2020 15:00 | August 9, 2020 19:00 | 4h | 340 | 137 |
| 6 | October 23, 2020 12:15 | October 23, 2020 16:45 | 4h 30m | 176 | 607 |
| 7 | October 12, 2020 05:45 | October 12, 2020 09:00 | 3h 15m | 157 | 346 |
| 8 | July 4, 2020 08:15 | July 4, 2020 10:15 | 2h | 148 | 261 |
| 9 | March 16, 2020 14:15 | March 16, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 142 | 36 |
| 10 | April 18, 2020 17:30 | April 18, 2020 17:45 | 15m | 142 | 36 |
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 Pocahontas 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Calhoun County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fonda - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pocahontas - (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 ÷ 3,159 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county