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2024 Hancock County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hancock County, IA went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1943rd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hancock County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 8, 2024 15:45 | November 8, 2024 18:00 | 2h 15m | 1,827 | 2,277 |
| 2 | October 26, 2024 19:15 | October 28, 2024 15:15 | 1d 20h | 1,783 | 3,167 |
| 3 | July 29, 2024 04:00 | July 29, 2024 07:00 | 3h | 434 | 1,198 |
| 4 | March 24, 2024 19:15 | March 24, 2024 20:15 | 1h | 429 | 322 |
| 5 | March 14, 2024 12:15 | March 14, 2024 13:15 | 1h | 424 | 394 |
| 6 | May 21, 2024 21:45 | May 22, 2024 12:15 | 14h 30m | 393 | 977 |
| 7 | June 14, 2024 04:15 | June 14, 2024 13:30 | 9h 15m | 281 | 927 |
| 8 | July 23, 2024 04:15 | July 23, 2024 10:15 | 6h | 267 | 1,538 |
| 9 | August 7, 2024 04:30 | August 7, 2024 08:15 | 3h 45m | 267 | 1,001 |
| 10 | July 9, 2024 04:30 | July 9, 2024 09:15 | 4h 45m | 266 | 1,264 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Hancock County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 65 min | 0.73 | 61 min | 0.71 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Prairie Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Boone Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Forest City- (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Corwith - (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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,489 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. Hancock County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hancock County, IA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/iowa/hancock-county