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2021 Hardin County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hardin County, IA went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2085th 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 Hardin 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 11, 2021 03:30 | December 11, 2021 20:15 | 16h 45m | 2,872 | 2,204 |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 00:30 | December 17, 2021 05:30 | 1d 5h | 2,253 | 9,772 |
| 3 | April 13, 2021 16:00 | April 13, 2021 16:15 | 15m | 2,067 | 517 |
| 4 | August 5, 2021 16:15 | August 5, 2021 18:15 | 2h | 560 | 452 |
| 5 | May 27, 2021 14:45 | May 27, 2021 16:00 | 1h 15m | 215 | 269 |
| 6 | October 2, 2021 19:15 | October 2, 2021 20:15 | 1h | 152 | 94 |
| 7 | March 18, 2021 07:30 | March 18, 2021 09:45 | 2h 15m | 104 | 234 |
| 8 | September 30, 2021 10:30 | September 30, 2021 11:45 | 1h 15m | 103 | 129 |
| 9 | September 30, 2021 13:15 | September 30, 2021 13:45 | 30m | 103 | 52 |
| 10 | November 3, 2021 14:30 | November 3, 2021 17:45 | 3h 15m | 101 | 278 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 10 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Hardin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2021 | 1.9 hrs | 1.04 | 75 min | 0.74 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Franklin Rural Electric Coop - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Grundy County Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,885 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. Hardin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardin 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/hardin-county