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2024 Pocahontas County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pocahontas County, IA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 9,825 customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2067th 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 Pocahontas 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 24, 2024 09:30 | May 24, 2024 18:15 | 8h 45m | 1,012 | 2,580 |
| 2 | September 19, 2024 03:30 | September 19, 2024 10:15 | 6h 45m | 398 | 2,684 |
| 3 | December 3, 2024 15:30 | December 3, 2024 18:15 | 2h 45m | 346 | 404 |
| 4 | April 6, 2024 20:15 | April 7, 2024 01:15 | 5h | 319 | 482 |
| 5 | November 1, 2024 07:15 | November 1, 2024 09:15 | 2h | 299 | 524 |
| 6 | July 26, 2024 16:15 | July 26, 2024 18:45 | 2h 30m | 238 | 400 |
| 7 | April 14, 2024 16:00 | April 14, 2024 18:00 | 2h | 157 | 314 |
| 8 | July 7, 2024 14:30 | July 7, 2024 20:00 | 5h 30m | 156 | 55 |
| 9 | April 27, 2024 14:00 | April 27, 2024 18:00 | 4h | 143 | 113 |
| 10 | November 12, 2024 05:45 | November 12, 2024 07:45 | 2h | 137 | 240 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 12 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 Pocahontas 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Midland Power Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Calhoun County Elec Coop Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fonda - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Pocahontas - (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 ÷ 3,159 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. Pocahontas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pocahontas 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/pocahontas-county