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2023 Howard County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Howard County, IA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 8,208 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2301st 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 Howard 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 | October 5, 2023 12:00 | October 5, 2023 13:45 | 1h 45m | 670 | 615 |
| 2 | October 27, 2023 01:30 | October 27, 2023 06:30 | 5h | 447 | 2,235 |
| 3 | April 8, 2023 20:00 | April 8, 2023 22:45 | 2h 45m | 446 | 1,226 |
| 4 | September 12, 2023 07:15 | September 12, 2023 12:15 | 5h | 410 | 721 |
| 5 | October 3, 2023 12:15 | October 3, 2023 15:00 | 2h 45m | 242 | 468 |
| 6 | January 13, 2023 15:00 | January 13, 2023 16:30 | 1h 30m | 185 | 232 |
| 7 | April 5, 2023 01:15 | April 5, 2023 02:30 | 1h 15m | 183 | 229 |
| 8 | May 31, 2023 13:00 | May 31, 2023 16:00 | 3h | 120 | 216 |
| 9 | January 31, 2023 10:15 | January 31, 2023 14:45 | 4h 30m | 96 | 199 |
| 10 | August 30, 2023 08:45 | August 30, 2023 11:00 | 2h 15m | 86 | 187 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 8 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 Howard 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heartland Power Coop | 2023 | 68 min | 0.90 | 68 min | 0.90 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2023 | 58 min | 0.66 | 52 min | 0.61 |
| 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 n/a of Iowa's customers in 2023; 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, 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/howard-county