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2021 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 4,029 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 97th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2801st 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 Kossuth 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 00:15 | December 16, 2021 15:45 | 15h 30m | 426 | 1,956 |
| 2 | February 16, 2021 14:00 | February 16, 2021 16:45 | 2h 45m | 365 | 360 |
| 3 | December 29, 2021 02:15 | December 29, 2021 02:45 | 30m | 189 | 48 |
| 4 | June 7, 2021 14:30 | June 7, 2021 15:45 | 1h 15m | 108 | 116 |
| 5 | December 11, 2021 01:45 | December 13, 2021 13:30 | 2d 11h | 70 | 508 |
| 6 | May 25, 2021 02:15 | May 25, 2021 06:00 | 3h 45m | 67 | 161 |
| 7 | May 31, 2021 09:15 | May 31, 2021 13:45 | 4h 30m | 67 | 195 |
| 8 | June 20, 2021 11:30 | June 20, 2021 11:45 | 15m | 67 | 17 |
| 9 | June 21, 2021 02:30 | June 21, 2021 03:15 | 45m | 67 | 50 |
| 10 | April 22, 2021 17:45 | April 22, 2021 19:30 | 1h 45m | 36 | 28 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 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 Kossuth 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2021 | 75 min | 0.84 | 65 min | 0.80 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 0.80 | 35 min | 0.39 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2021 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 | 2.0 hrs | 0.99 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/kossuth-county