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Who serves Poweshiek 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 Montezuma and City of Brooklyn 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 — Poweshiek County, IA
Last significant outage: Sep 20, 2026 — peaked at 249 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5 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 — Poweshiek County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
163 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 summer.
That is shorter than the Iowa norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2 hr.
Largest on record: ~8,164 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 8.5 days. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
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 Poweshiek County include Grinnell, Brooklyn, Montezuma, Malcom, Deep River, Searsboro, Hartwick and Guernsey. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
