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2024 O'Brien County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in O'Brien County, IA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2006th 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 O'Brien 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 7, 2024 00:45 | May 7, 2024 09:45 | 9h | 1,314 | 3,307 |
| 2 | August 1, 2024 04:15 | August 1, 2024 11:15 | 7h | 762 | 3,395 |
| 3 | May 29, 2024 04:30 | May 29, 2024 04:45 | 15m | 760 | 190 |
| 4 | June 6, 2024 04:15 | June 6, 2024 08:45 | 4h 30m | 759 | 3,416 |
| 5 | October 17, 2024 21:45 | October 18, 2024 00:00 | 2h 15m | 705 | 707 |
| 6 | September 22, 2024 15:30 | September 22, 2024 21:00 | 5h 30m | 625 | 830 |
| 7 | June 20, 2024 04:45 | June 20, 2024 07:30 | 2h 45m | 519 | 1,425 |
| 8 | June 10, 2024 18:00 | June 10, 2024 18:30 | 30m | 153 | 77 |
| 9 | July 18, 2024 21:45 | July 19, 2024 12:45 | 15h | 108 | 1,620 |
| 10 | November 29, 2024 00:15 | November 29, 2024 04:45 | 4h 30m | 87 | 143 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 9 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 O'Brien 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 |
| Osceola Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 | 2.4 hrs | 4.21 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Hartley - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Paullina - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Primghar - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sanborn - (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 ÷ 5,030 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. O'Brien County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), O'Brien 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/obrien-county