When will the power be back in Butler County, IA?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Butler County, IA right now.
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Elsewhere in Iowa: 62 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 9:02 AM CDT.
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Who serves Butler County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives and Alliant Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Aplington also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Butler County, IA
Last significant outage: Sep 15, 2026 — peaked at 622 customers, restored in ~3 hr (weather alert).
Across the 4 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Butler County, IA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
94 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
Largest on record: ~3,840 customers out in July 2025, restored after about 23.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Butler County include Parkersburg, Shell Rock, Clarksville, Aplington, Greene, Allison, Dumont and New Hartford. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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