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2024 Pottawattamie County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Pottawattamie County, IA went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 356K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1262nd 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 Pottawattamie 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 | June 25, 2024 12:30 | June 28, 2024 05:00 | 2d 16h | 12,184 | 119K |
| 2 | April 26, 2024 21:45 | April 30, 2024 23:00 | 4d 1h | 6,138 | 66K |
| 3 | July 31, 2024 22:15 | August 6, 2024 22:45 | 6d | 6,061 | 67K |
| 4 | September 5, 2024 14:45 | September 9, 2024 11:15 | 3d 20h | 2,904 | 3,918 |
| 5 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | May 25, 2024 12:15 | 1d 3h | 2,851 | 6,098 |
| 6 | May 25, 2024 22:30 | May 28, 2024 18:45 | 2d 20h | 2,231 | 2,542 |
| 7 | May 5, 2024 03:00 | May 5, 2024 04:45 | 1h 45m | 2,195 | 3,841 |
| 8 | July 7, 2024 00:45 | July 9, 2024 22:15 | 2d 21h | 1,785 | 1,557 |
| 9 | January 9, 2024 14:30 | January 10, 2024 11:45 | 21h 15m | 1,783 | 15K |
| 10 | May 21, 2024 04:45 | May 22, 2024 09:15 | 1d 4h | 1,652 | 6,465 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 53 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Pottawattamie 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 |
| Omaha Public Power District | 2024 | 19.8 hrs | 1.68 | 86 min | 0.66 |
| Waverly Municipal Elec Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | - | - | - | - | - |
| Harrison County Rrl Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Atlantic Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Shelby - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Neola - (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 ÷ 51,132 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. Pottawattamie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pottawattamie 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/pottawattamie-county