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2024 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 6,501 customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 95th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2764th 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 Kossuth 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 | April 22, 2024 17:15 | April 22, 2024 19:45 | 2h 30m | 1,048 | 273 |
| 2 | December 28, 2024 06:00 | December 28, 2024 09:00 | 3h | 1,047 | 2,015 |
| 3 | June 1, 2024 13:45 | June 1, 2024 15:45 | 2h | 1,041 | 644 |
| 4 | February 29, 2024 17:45 | February 29, 2024 21:15 | 3h 30m | 353 | 344 |
| 5 | June 3, 2024 08:15 | June 3, 2024 12:00 | 3h 45m | 194 | 197 |
| 6 | May 24, 2024 10:15 | May 24, 2024 22:15 | 12h | 182 | 639 |
| 7 | March 20, 2024 20:00 | March 20, 2024 20:15 | 15m | 158 | 40 |
| 8 | July 26, 2024 14:00 | July 26, 2024 17:45 | 3h 45m | 146 | 142 |
| 9 | June 4, 2024 21:30 | June 5, 2024 01:00 | 3h 30m | 92 | 36 |
| 10 | October 16, 2024 13:45 | October 16, 2024 17:00 | 3h 15m | 84 | 162 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 8 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 Kossuth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | 1.42 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2024 | 45 min | 0.48 | 45 min | 0.48 |
| Heartland Power Coop | 2024 | 65 min | 0.73 | 61 min | 0.71 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2024 | 77 min | 0.95 | 77 min | 0.95 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/kossuth-county