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2021 Emmet County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Emmet County, IA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 7,671 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2552nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Emmet County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 16, 2021 00:00 | December 16, 2021 20:15 | 20h 15m | 1,112 | 5,648 |
| 2 | June 17, 2021 20:30 | June 17, 2021 21:00 | 30m | 238 | 119 |
| 3 | October 13, 2021 14:30 | October 13, 2021 17:15 | 2h 45m | 231 | 358 |
| 4 | February 16, 2021 15:00 | February 16, 2021 16:00 | 1h | 102 | 102 |
| 5 | February 17, 2021 14:00 | February 17, 2021 14:30 | 30m | 102 | 51 |
| 6 | May 20, 2021 05:45 | May 20, 2021 11:15 | 5h 30m | 97 | 406 |
| 7 | July 14, 2021 12:45 | July 14, 2021 15:00 | 2h 15m | 78 | 94 |
| 8 | September 16, 2021 11:45 | September 16, 2021 21:15 | 9h 30m | 40 | 111 |
| 9 | November 11, 2021 01:00 | November 11, 2021 06:30 | 5h 30m | 39 | 211 |
| 10 | July 7, 2021 02:00 | July 7, 2021 04:00 | 2h | 35 | 59 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 5 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 Emmet County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 75 min | 0.84 | 65 min | 0.80 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/iowa/emmet-county