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2025 Kossuth County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Kossuth County, IA went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1662nd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kossuth County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 5, 2025 01:00 | March 6, 2025 22:15 | 1d 21h | 1,586 | 12K |
| 2 | July 28, 2025 04:00 | July 28, 2025 15:45 | 11h 45m | 1,197 | 812 |
| 3 | July 29, 2025 05:00 | July 29, 2025 17:30 | 12h 30m | 854 | 533 |
| 4 | March 19, 2025 14:00 | March 20, 2025 06:00 | 16h | 832 | 1,446 |
| 5 | July 10, 2025 09:45 | July 10, 2025 10:30 | 45m | 748 | 552 |
| 6 | May 27, 2025 19:00 | May 27, 2025 19:15 | 15m | 373 | 93 |
| 7 | May 15, 2025 18:30 | May 15, 2025 21:00 | 2h 30m | 364 | 366 |
| 8 | May 15, 2025 15:45 | May 15, 2025 17:15 | 1h 30m | 351 | 91 |
| 9 | December 4, 2025 10:00 | December 4, 2025 12:30 | 2h 30m | 336 | 86 |
| 10 | December 12, 2025 22:45 | December 13, 2025 03:00 | 4h 15m | 336 | 647 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 22 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/iowa/kossuth-county