When will the power be back in Pottawattamie County, IA?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Pottawattamie County, IA right now.

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Elsewhere in Iowa: 163 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 4:16 AM CDT.

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Who serves Pottawattamie County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy and Iowa Electric Cooperatives, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Omaha Public Power District, City of Neola and City of Shelby 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 — Pottawattamie County, IA

Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 1,049 customers, restored in ~3 hr (weather alert).

Across the 16 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.5 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 15, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Pottawattamie County, IA

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 365 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 3 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: ~12,888 customers out in July 2021, restored after about 2.8 days. The busiest year on record here was 2018.

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 Pottawattamie County

Council Bluffs

Communities in Pottawattamie County include Council Bluffs, Carter Lake, Avoca, Oakland, Treynor, Underwood, Neola and Carson. 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 Pottawattamie County, IA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Pottawattamie include MidAmerican Energy, Iowa Electric Cooperatives, Omaha Public Power District 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.

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