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Who serves Wapello County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include MidAmerican Energy, Alliant Energy, Access Energy Cooperative and Iowa Electric Cooperatives, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Wapello County, IA
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 663 customers, restored in ~1.2 hr (weather alert).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 14, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Wapello County, IA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
203 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~6,713 customers out in July 2019, restored after about 10.3 hr. 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 Wapello County
Communities in Wapello County include Ottumwa, Eddyville, Eldon, Agency, Blakesburg, Kirkville and Chillicothe. 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 Wapello County, IA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Wapello include MidAmerican Energy, Alliant Energy, Access Energy Cooperative 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.
