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Who serves Polk County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Midland Power Cooperative and Alliant Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Consumers Energy 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 — Polk County, IA
⚡ Power here was restored about 43 hours ago — the outage peaked at 19,387 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 19,387 customers, restored in ~3.7 hr (weather alert).
Across the 37 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 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Polk County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,112 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
18 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~114,873 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 4.7 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 Polk County
Communities in Polk County include Des Moines, Ankeny, West Des Moines, Urbandale, Johnston, Altoona, Clive and Grimes. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Polk County, IA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Polk include MidAmerican Energy, Midland Power Cooperative, Consumers Energy and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
