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2021 Osceola County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Osceola County, IA went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 1,742 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 98th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2816th 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 Osceola 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 | November 1, 2021 13:30 | November 1, 2021 13:45 | 15m | 1,063 | 266 |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 03:45 | December 16, 2021 18:30 | 14h 45m | 171 | 755 |
| 3 | December 29, 2021 04:45 | December 29, 2021 06:45 | 2h | 171 | 342 |
| 4 | August 6, 2021 02:45 | August 6, 2021 04:45 | 2h | 152 | 168 |
| 5 | May 25, 2021 03:45 | May 25, 2021 05:15 | 1h 30m | 43 | 65 |
| 6 | April 6, 2021 04:15 | April 6, 2021 07:30 | 3h 15m | 15 | 24 |
| 7 | May 27, 2021 13:45 | May 27, 2021 15:45 | 2h | 14 | 28 |
| 8 | September 30, 2021 23:15 | October 1, 2021 00:45 | 1h 30m | 13 | 20 |
| 9 | February 16, 2021 14:45 | February 16, 2021 16:45 | 2h | 9 | 18 |
| 10 | September 28, 2021 15:00 | September 28, 2021 16:00 | 1h | 5 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 4 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 Osceola 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 | 4.0 hrs | 1.09 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 |
| Lyon Rural Electric Coop | 2018 | 34 min | 0.38 | 34 min | 0.38 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sibley - (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 ÷ 3,588 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. Osceola County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Osceola 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/osceola-county