Power Out Map
– 0% of Page out 0 customers out in Iowa

Power outage history

Page County Iowa

3.0hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

56th most of 98 in Iowa 55% below the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 16, 2021 44% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.0h / yr State average 5.4 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 2.7days Dec 15, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 70% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 9.9 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 9,035 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Page's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Page, hours without power per customer

PageUS median countyIowa average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 0.3 ’15 2.5 ’16 3.0 ’17 2.0 ’18 1.1 ’19 1.0 ’20 9.9 ’21 1.9 ’22 2.5 ’23 1.4 ’24 3.8 ’25 US 6.6 IA 5.4

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Dec 15, 2021 Windstorm 4,004 44% 2.7 d 22 h 82k
Mar 4, 2025 Winter storm 2,681 30% 17 h 13 h 20k
Jun 16, 2017 No storm report 2,359 26% 22 h 13 h 13k
Jul 18, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,488 28% 9.8 h 5.5 h 10.0k
Jun 11, 2018 Thunderstorms 1,675 19% 18 h 7.8 h 8.0k
Nov 29, 2022 No storm report 3,628 40% 2.5 h 48 min 6.3k
Jun 15, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,548 39% 5.5 h 1.2 h 6.0k
Apr 16, 2023 No storm report 1,251 14% 10 h 3.5 h 5.5k
Jul 27, 2023 No storm report 2,362 26% 2.2 h 2.2 h 4.9k
Aug 10, 2025 Thunderstorms 645 7% 12 h 11 h 4.9k
Jul 21, 2023 No storm report 450 5% 15 h – 4.6k
Sep 5, 2022 No storm report 1,191 13% 3.0 h 8.5 h 3.5k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Page from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Windstorm 46%
  • No storm on record 30%
  • Winter storm 12%
  • Thunderstorms 12%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Page

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Iowa territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
MidAmerican Energy Co Investor Owned 205 82 1.19 11.2 640k
Southwest Iowa Rural Elec Coop IA 122 122 1.69 12.5 75k
Atchison-Holt Electric Coop MO – – – 14.0 10k
United Electric Coop, Inc MO – – – 16.0 7.1k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Iowa

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Iowa counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 9,035 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →