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Who serves Calhoun County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives and Midland Power Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Farnhamville 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 — Calhoun County, IA
Last significant outage: Jul 8, 2026 — peaked at 227 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (wind/storm).
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 — Calhoun County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
97 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~2,838 customers out in March 2025, restored after about 24.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
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 Calhoun County include Rockwell City, Lake City, Manson, Pomeroy, Lohrville, Farnhamville, Somers and Knierim. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.