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2024 Palo Alto County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Palo Alto County, IA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2254th 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 Palo Alto 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 05:30 | May 21, 2024 13:30 | 8h | 2,238 | 4,162 |
| 2 | September 6, 2024 03:15 | September 6, 2024 09:45 | 6h 30m | 1,114 | 1,456 |
| 3 | May 24, 2024 10:00 | May 24, 2024 13:30 | 3h 30m | 1,012 | 1,792 |
| 4 | September 10, 2024 04:45 | September 10, 2024 06:15 | 1h 30m | 1,011 | 1,008 |
| 5 | May 24, 2024 19:30 | May 24, 2024 21:00 | 1h 30m | 199 | 51 |
| 6 | November 18, 2024 19:45 | November 18, 2024 21:15 | 1h 30m | 160 | 138 |
| 7 | August 7, 2024 17:15 | August 7, 2024 19:00 | 1h 45m | 74 | 111 |
| 8 | October 19, 2024 21:45 | October 19, 2024 22:30 | 45m | 68 | 51 |
| 9 | May 18, 2024 02:00 | May 20, 2024 13:00 | 2d 11h | 65 | 154 |
| 10 | August 8, 2024 14:30 | August 8, 2024 15:00 | 30m | 60 | 30 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 6 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Palo Alto 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 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of West Bend | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Graettinger - (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 ÷ 4,166 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. Palo Alto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Palo Alto 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/palo-alto-county