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2022 Pocahontas County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Pocahontas County, IA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 7,285 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2176th 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 Pocahontas 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 | October 21, 2022 04:15 | October 21, 2022 12:30 | 8h 15m | 386 | 2,318 |
| 2 | April 26, 2022 21:30 | April 26, 2022 23:00 | 1h 30m | 346 | 518 |
| 3 | June 15, 2022 12:15 | June 15, 2022 14:45 | 2h 30m | 304 | 746 |
| 4 | June 8, 2022 18:45 | June 8, 2022 20:00 | 1h 15m | 299 | 338 |
| 5 | April 12, 2022 23:45 | April 13, 2022 23:30 | 23h 45m | 159 | 672 |
| 6 | April 10, 2022 07:15 | April 10, 2022 08:30 | 1h 15m | 131 | 164 |
| 7 | September 2, 2022 13:45 | September 2, 2022 15:00 | 1h 15m | 98 | 122 |
| 8 | December 13, 2022 15:45 | December 13, 2022 20:00 | 4h 15m | 87 | 307 |
| 9 | December 17, 2022 00:15 | December 17, 2022 02:30 | 2h 15m | 87 | 196 |
| 10 | May 30, 2022 11:30 | May 30, 2022 14:30 | 3h | 80 | 201 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 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 Pocahontas 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Calhoun County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fonda - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pocahontas - (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 ÷ 3,159 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county