When will the power be back in Palo Alto County, IA?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Palo Alto County, IA right now.
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Elsewhere in Iowa: 6 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 10:31 PM CDT.
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Who serves Palo Alto County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Alliant Energy and Iowa Electric Cooperatives, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Graettinger 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 — Palo Alto County, IA
No significant outages recorded here since we began tracking this county — smaller flickers (under ~200 customers at peak) aren't archived.
Longer-term outage history — Palo Alto County, IA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
51 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 winter.
That is shorter than the Iowa norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2 hr.
Largest on record: ~2,263 customers out in December 2021, restored after about 19.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
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 Palo Alto County include Emmetsburg, Graettinger, West Bend, Ruthven, Mallard, Ayrshire, Cylinder and Curlew. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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