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Who serves Linn County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Alliant Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives and Eastern Iowa Light & Power Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Coggon 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 — Linn County, IA
Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 306 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
Across the 11 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 26, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Linn County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
794 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
3 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~109,389 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 12.2 days. 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 Linn County
Communities in Linn County include Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, Mount Vernon, Robins, Fairfax, Center Point and Ely. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
