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Who serves Pocahontas County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives, Midland Power Cooperative and Alliant Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Pocahontas, City of Laurens and City of Fonda 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 — Pocahontas 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 — Pocahontas County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
48 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~1,012 customers out in May 2024, restored after about 6 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 Pocahontas County include Laurens, Fonda, Rolfe, Palmer, Havelock, Varina and Plover. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
