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2022 O'Brien County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in O'Brien County, IA went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1279th 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 O'Brien 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 | July 5, 2022 23:00 | July 6, 2022 20:00 | 21h | 3,169 | 10K |
| 2 | May 13, 2022 01:15 | May 13, 2022 06:30 | 5h 15m | 861 | 1,559 |
| 3 | May 6, 2022 14:00 | May 9, 2022 15:00 | 3d 1h | 826 | 3,604 |
| 4 | April 7, 2022 21:30 | April 7, 2022 22:15 | 45m | 802 | 601 |
| 5 | May 12, 2022 20:00 | May 12, 2022 21:45 | 1h 45m | 800 | 1,124 |
| 6 | June 2, 2022 19:00 | June 2, 2022 19:45 | 45m | 799 | 599 |
| 7 | April 26, 2022 11:45 | April 26, 2022 12:15 | 30m | 686 | 202 |
| 8 | March 27, 2022 06:00 | March 27, 2022 09:30 | 3h 30m | 643 | 2,250 |
| 9 | December 23, 2022 06:15 | December 23, 2022 07:45 | 1h 30m | 630 | 630 |
| 10 | December 9, 2022 19:00 | December 9, 2022 23:45 | 4h 45m | 629 | 349 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 17 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 O'Brien 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.03 | 87 min | 0.88 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2022 | 71 min | 0.69 | 68 min | 0.67 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hartley - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Paullina - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Primghar - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sanborn - (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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,030 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. O'Brien County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), O'Brien 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/obrien-county