When will the power be back in Mahaska County, IA?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Mahaska County, IA right now.
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Elsewhere in Iowa: 259 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 3:45 PM CDT.
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Who serves Mahaska County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives and Alliant Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Pella 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 — Mahaska County, IA
Last significant outage: Aug 31, 2026 — peaked at 2,002 customers, restored in ~48 min (heat event).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Mahaska County, IA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
104 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: ~5,512 customers out in April 2024, restored after about 7.3 hr.
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 Mahaska County
Communities in Mahaska County include Oskaloosa, New Sharon, Fremont, University Park, Beacon, Rose Hill, Leighton and Barnes City. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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