Iowa Power Outage Record

Iowa's outage record, statewide

Averaged across every utility reporting in Iowa, customers lost power 1 times in the most recent year, totalling 2.5 hours. Rare, well below the national average

Most customers here keep power almost all year. A backup generator is a nice-to-have, not a need. How these bands are drawn is in the methodology, and how often vs how long explains why outage length matters more for Iowa.

Find your own utility in Iowa

19 utilities in Iowa filed their own number, usually a better match than the state average:

• City of Ames
• Butler County Rural Elec Coop
• Cedar Falls Utilities
• East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop
• Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop
• Heartland Power Coop
• City of Independence
• Interstate Power and Light Co
• Iowa Lakes Electric Coop
• Corridor Energy Cooperative
• Consumers Energy Coop
• MidAmerican Energy Co
• Midland Power Coop
• Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop
• Board of Water Electric & Communications
• Prairie Energy Coop
• Access Energy Coop
• North West Rural Electric Coop
• MiEnergy Cooperative