Power outages in Iowa

Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes

customers reported out statewide · 3 counties reporting

Updated 10:37 PM CDT.

Includes 3 that a utility reports without saying which county — search your address for your exact status.

“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.

Utility coverage in Iowa

Tracked utilities with dedicated pages

MidAmerican Energy (IA) · Alliant Energy (IA/WI)

Also tracked live — opens in the app

Iowa Electric Cooperatives (IAEC statewide map) · Eastern Iowa Light & Power Cooperative (IA) · Midland Power Cooperative (IA) · North West Rural Electric Cooperative (IA) · Access Energy Cooperative (IA) · Nobles Cooperative Electric (MN)

This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Iowa.

Historical outage patterns in Iowa

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) contain 13,259 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Iowa between 2014 and 2025 across all 99 counties — 59 of them major events of 10,000+ customers. Half were restored within about 2 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (36% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2019.

Largest single-county outage on record: ~114,873 customers out in Polk County in August 2020, restored after about 4.7 days.

Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: August 2020 (25 counties), December 2021 (22 counties) and May 2024 (15 counties).

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below; the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month produced one of its three largest recorded outages.

Common questions

Which utilities serve Iowa?

Electric utilities we track in Iowa include MidAmerican Energy, Alliant Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives, Eastern Iowa Light & Power Cooperative and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.

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