See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Iowa
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Who serves Cherokee County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives, North West Rural Electric Cooperative and Alliant Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Aurelia 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 — Cherokee 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 — Cherokee County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
55 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: ~3,081 customers out in March 2025, restored after about 5.5 hr.
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 Cherokee County include Marcus, Aurelia, Quimby, Cleghorn, Washta, Meriden and Larrabee. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
