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2022 Palo Alto County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Palo Alto County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 7,961 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2332nd 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 Palo Alto 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 | January 6, 2022 22:00 | January 7, 2022 00:00 | 2h | 2,190 | 2,987 |
| 2 | September 1, 2022 06:15 | September 1, 2022 08:30 | 2h 15m | 640 | 550 |
| 3 | August 19, 2022 01:15 | August 19, 2022 02:00 | 45m | 634 | 160 |
| 4 | May 30, 2022 21:45 | May 31, 2022 04:00 | 6h 15m | 446 | 642 |
| 5 | April 22, 2022 13:00 | April 22, 2022 14:00 | 1h | 158 | 158 |
| 6 | October 21, 2022 03:30 | October 21, 2022 10:30 | 7h | 149 | 582 |
| 7 | July 5, 2022 23:00 | July 6, 2022 03:30 | 4h 30m | 132 | 328 |
| 8 | July 6, 2022 05:30 | July 6, 2022 17:30 | 12h | 102 | 309 |
| 9 | December 16, 2022 16:00 | December 16, 2022 21:30 | 5h 30m | 100 | 545 |
| 10 | November 17, 2022 15:00 | November 17, 2022 16:45 | 1h 45m | 83 | 145 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 9 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 Palo Alto 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of West Bend | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Graettinger - (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 ÷ 4,166 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. Palo Alto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Palo Alto 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/palo-alto-county