When will the power be back in Clay County, IA?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Clay 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 Clay County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Alliant Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives and North West Rural Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Spencer 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 — Clay 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 — Clay County, IA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
38 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 summer.
Largest on record: ~959 customers out in July 2022, restored after about 9.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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 Clay County
Communities in Clay County include Spencer, Everly, Royal, Peterson, Fostoria, Dickens, Webb and Greenville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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