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Who serves Des Moines County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Alliant Energy, Eastern Iowa Light & Power Cooperative and Access Energy Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Danville 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 — Des Moines County, IA
Last significant outage: Aug 12, 2026 — peaked at 1,619 customers, restored in ~6.5 hr (heat event).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 12, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Des Moines County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
227 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~7,944 customers out in August 2024, restored after about 25.3 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 Des Moines County
Communities in Des Moines County include Burlington, West Burlington, Mediapolis, Danville, Middletown, Augusta, Beaverdale and Kingston. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
