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2023 Dickinson County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Dickinson County, IA went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2043rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dickinson County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 14, 2023 19:45 | March 14, 2023 21:45 | 2h | 2,373 | 2,563 |
| 2 | July 29, 2023 09:15 | July 29, 2023 10:45 | 1h 30m | 1,316 | 1,646 |
| 3 | June 8, 2023 08:15 | June 8, 2023 12:15 | 4h | 1,303 | 2,321 |
| 4 | August 2, 2023 15:15 | August 2, 2023 19:15 | 4h | 905 | 240 |
| 5 | October 13, 2023 02:45 | October 13, 2023 04:30 | 1h 45m | 876 | 1,301 |
| 6 | May 30, 2023 05:45 | May 30, 2023 08:15 | 2h 30m | 718 | 1,319 |
| 7 | October 4, 2023 03:15 | October 4, 2023 10:15 | 7h | 695 | 598 |
| 8 | August 25, 2023 07:00 | August 25, 2023 12:00 | 5h | 365 | 912 |
| 9 | August 16, 2023 14:30 | August 16, 2023 17:00 | 2h 30m | 302 | 114 |
| 10 | June 16, 2023 02:15 | June 16, 2023 04:15 | 2h | 223 | 398 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 19 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Dickinson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 52 min | 0.51 | 52 min | 0.51 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Milford - (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 n/a of Iowa's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,731 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. Dickinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickinson County, IA annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/iowa/dickinson-county