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2023 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 7,377 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2691st 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 Kossuth 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 | August 29, 2023 04:45 | August 29, 2023 11:45 | 7h | 896 | 4,918 |
| 2 | September 23, 2023 10:30 | September 23, 2023 13:30 | 3h | 660 | 356 |
| 3 | April 24, 2023 14:15 | April 24, 2023 18:30 | 4h 15m | 55 | 203 |
| 4 | December 4, 2023 18:00 | December 5, 2023 13:45 | 19h 45m | 39 | 741 |
| 5 | December 16, 2023 03:45 | December 16, 2023 04:15 | 30m | 38 | 19 |
| 6 | March 22, 2023 04:45 | March 22, 2023 07:00 | 2h 15m | 35 | 67 |
| 7 | March 21, 2023 17:45 | March 21, 2023 19:15 | 1h 30m | 33 | 50 |
| 8 | June 6, 2023 04:30 | June 6, 2023 07:30 | 3h | 32 | 66 |
| 9 | April 27, 2023 15:00 | April 27, 2023 17:00 | 2h | 31 | 62 |
| 10 | December 20, 2023 20:00 | December 20, 2023 22:15 | 2h 15m | 31 | 70 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 Kossuth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2023 | 2.8 hrs | 1.13 | 78 min | 0.83 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2023 | 52 min | 0.51 | 52 min | 0.51 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2023 | 68 min | 0.90 | 68 min | 0.90 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 | 1.8 hrs | 1.21 |
| City of Algona - (IA) | 2017 | 15 min | 0.21 | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of West Bend | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bancroft Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Burt | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Whittemore - (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 ÷ 7,698 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. Kossuth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kossuth 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/kossuth-county