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2025 Pottawattamie County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Pottawattamie County, IA went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.9 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2487th 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 Pottawattamie 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 19, 2025 06:30 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 1d 14h | 4,721 | 22K |
| 2 | October 10, 2025 15:15 | October 10, 2025 20:00 | 4h 45m | 3,156 | 2,371 |
| 3 | August 14, 2025 22:30 | August 15, 2025 02:45 | 4h 15m | 2,932 | 1,282 |
| 4 | March 4, 2025 21:45 | March 6, 2025 22:30 | 2d | 2,828 | 14K |
| 5 | March 20, 2025 23:30 | March 23, 2025 15:15 | 2d 15h | 1,909 | 5,669 |
| 6 | June 29, 2025 11:15 | June 29, 2025 16:30 | 5h 15m | 1,822 | 926 |
| 7 | June 25, 2025 07:30 | June 25, 2025 14:00 | 6h 30m | 1,371 | 2,293 |
| 8 | September 13, 2025 22:00 | September 14, 2025 03:45 | 5h 45m | 1,283 | 1,683 |
| 9 | May 6, 2025 00:15 | May 6, 2025 02:00 | 1h 45m | 1,233 | 1,233 |
| 10 | July 28, 2025 08:00 | July 28, 2025 22:00 | 14h | 1,232 | 2,414 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 48 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Pottawattamie 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/pottawattamie-county