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2024 Howard County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Howard County, IA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1819th 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 Howard 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 | May 21, 2024 22:45 | May 23, 2024 06:15 | 1d 7h | 1,333 | 5,589 |
| 2 | October 13, 2024 15:15 | October 13, 2024 16:45 | 1h 30m | 723 | 1,085 |
| 3 | April 6, 2024 00:45 | April 6, 2024 02:00 | 1h 15m | 708 | 885 |
| 4 | April 19, 2024 15:15 | April 19, 2024 16:15 | 1h | 604 | 603 |
| 5 | August 29, 2024 23:45 | August 30, 2024 08:15 | 8h 30m | 484 | 2,156 |
| 6 | August 14, 2024 16:30 | August 14, 2024 19:30 | 3h | 301 | 897 |
| 7 | October 4, 2024 18:30 | October 4, 2024 19:45 | 1h 15m | 300 | 359 |
| 8 | March 13, 2024 00:15 | March 13, 2024 02:30 | 2h 15m | 237 | 533 |
| 9 | December 26, 2024 16:00 | December 30, 2024 13:30 | 3d 21h | 228 | 726 |
| 10 | May 6, 2024 17:00 | May 6, 2024 17:15 | 15m | 166 | 42 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| MiEnergy Cooperative | 2024 | 85 min | 0.70 | 64 min | 0.60 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/howard-county