Iowa power outages

Live outages across Iowa from MidAmerican Energy, updated every 10 minutes. 9 counties have customers without power right now.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

98customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

0.01% of 746,438 customersUpdated 2 min ago

We check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.

MidAmerican Energy98 / 746,438

Interstate Power and Light Cono live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Omaha Public Power Districtno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Corridor Energy Cooperativeno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

<0.01%0.01%0.1%1%+ outno live feed

Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.

Counties with the most outages

9 counties with live data

County	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
Polk County	21	–	–
O'Brien County	20	–	–
Black Hawk County	15	–	–
Scott County	12	–	–
Pottawattamie County	10	–	–
Woodbury County	10	–	–
Dallas County	7	–	–
Webster County	2	–	–
Page County	1	–	–

Outage history in Iowa

2014–2025 record

Iowa averaged 6 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 8. Half were over within 5.5 hours; the longest lasted 14 hours, starting March 5, 2025.

The largest on record began August 10, 2020, with 490,967 customers out at once.

Outages are most common in July.

6significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

3.5 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

11 dayslongest on record (August 2020)

490,967most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
August 10, 2020	490,967	11 days	40,993,452
December 15, 2021	148,118	27 hours	1,572,323
May 21, 2024	69,005	14 hours	506,234
July 15, 2024	61,280	8 hours	278,284
May 24, 2024	55,439	7 hours	234,493

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Counties in Iowa

Utilities

MidAmerican Energy
Interstate Power and Light Co no live feed
Omaha Public Power District no live feed
Corridor Energy Cooperative no live feed
City of Ames - (IA) no live feed
Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop no live feed
MiEnergy Cooperative no live feed
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative no live feed
Cedar Falls Utilities no live feed