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Who serves Lyon County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives, North West Rural Electric Cooperative, Nobles Cooperative Electric and 1 more, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Rock Rapids Municipal Utility and City of Larchwood 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 — Lyon County, IA
Last significant outage: Sep 3, 2026 — peaked at 470 customers, restored in ~1.8 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 2, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Lyon County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
66 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.3 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: ~1,792 customers out in July 2025, restored after about 37.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Lyon County include Rock Rapids, George, Inwood, Larchwood, Doon, Little Rock, Lester and Alvord. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
