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Who serves Dickinson County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Alliant Energy and Iowa Electric Cooperatives, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Federated Rural Electric Association, City of Milford and City of Lake Park also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Dickinson County, IA
Last significant outage: Sep 26, 2026 — peaked at 331 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 26, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Dickinson County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
109 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: ~9,861 customers out in March 2019, restored after about 2 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 Dickinson County include Spirit Lake, Milford, Arnolds Park, Lake Park, Okoboji, Orleans, Wahpeton and West Okoboji. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
