See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Iowa
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Who serves Buena Vista County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Alliant Energy and Iowa Electric Cooperatives, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Alta and City of Marathon also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Buena Vista County, IA
No significant outages recorded here since we began tracking this county — smaller flickers (under ~200 customers at peak) aren't archived.
Longer-term outage history — Buena Vista County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
60 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Iowa norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2 hr.
Largest on record: ~6,428 customers out in April 2025, restored after about 19.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Buena Vista County
Communities in Buena Vista County include Storm Lake, Alta, Newell, Sioux Rapids, Lakeside, Albert City, Marathon and Rembrandt. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
