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2022 Howard County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Howard County, IA went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 978th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Howard County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 7, 2022 00:00 | August 7, 2022 08:45 | 8h 45m | 2,415 | 13K |
| 2 | July 24, 2022 04:30 | July 24, 2022 23:45 | 19h 15m | 631 | 1,675 |
| 3 | March 30, 2022 06:45 | March 30, 2022 07:45 | 1h | 598 | 598 |
| 4 | April 20, 2022 09:15 | April 20, 2022 18:30 | 9h 15m | 440 | 2,204 |
| 5 | May 10, 2022 13:30 | May 10, 2022 16:00 | 2h 30m | 440 | 988 |
| 6 | May 10, 2022 09:30 | May 10, 2022 12:00 | 2h 30m | 439 | 1,098 |
| 7 | November 20, 2022 00:00 | November 20, 2022 23:45 | 23h 45m | 415 | 944 |
| 8 | April 13, 2022 04:15 | April 13, 2022 18:45 | 14h 30m | 397 | 1,137 |
| 9 | May 15, 2022 20:30 | May 15, 2022 21:15 | 45m | 306 | 164 |
| 10 | August 24, 2022 13:15 | August 24, 2022 20:45 | 7h 30m | 243 | 452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 19 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 Howard County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland Power Coop | 2022 | 73 min | 0.76 | 73 min | 0.76 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.40 | 1.9 hrs | 1.24 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,177 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. Howard County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Howard County, IA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/iowa/howard-county