Power outage history
Crawford County Iowa
2.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
74th most of 98 in Iowa 68% below the national median
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 Crawford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.2 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Crawford, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,929 | 32% | 31 h | 24 h | 38k |
| Apr 11, 2019 | No storm report | 2,099 | 23% | 17 h | 17 h | 21k |
| Oct 30, 2022 | No storm report | 929 | 10% | 9.8 h | 10 h | 8.8k |
| Aug 29, 2018 | No storm report | 254 | 3% | 48 h | – | 8.1k |
| Jul 30, 2024 | No storm report | 675 | 7% | 9.8 h | 8.8 h | 5.5k |
| Aug 21, 2015 | No storm report | 939 | 10% | 5.2 h | 5.2 h | 4.9k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | No storm report | 923 | 10% | 8.8 h | 1.0 h | 4.2k |
| Mar 21, 2016 | No storm report | 2,276 | 25% | 2.5 h | 2.0 h | 4.2k |
| May 30, 2019 | No storm report | 2,354 | 26% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 4.1k |
| Nov 26, 2015 | No storm report | 965 | 10% | 6.5 h | 1.8 h | 3.9k |
| Sep 22, 2016 | No storm report | 287 | 3% | 14 h | – | 3.9k |
| Mar 24, 2016 | No storm report | 1,026 | 11% | 5.8 h | 7.8 h | 3.4k |
| Apr 14, 2024 | No storm report | 936 | 10% | 3.8 h | 10 h | 3.4k |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 561 | 6% | 5.5 h | 5.0 h | 2.6k |
| Mar 13, 2022 | No storm report | 969 | 11% | 2.5 h | 2.5 h | 2.3k |
| Jul 5, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 478 | 5% | 5.0 h | 8.0 h | 2.3k |
| Mar 23, 2016 | No storm report | 2,154 | 23% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 2.2k |
| Jun 18, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 737 | 8% | 4.2 h | 4.0 h | 2.0k |
| Jun 30, 2018 | No storm report | 402 | 4% | 4.8 h | – | 1.5k |
| Mar 14, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 453 | 5% | 3.5 h | – | 1.5k |
| Jul 20, 2019 | Heat | 807 | 9% | 5.8 h | 5.2 h | 1.4k |
| Apr 28, 2025 | No storm report | 836 | 9% | 2.2 h | 1.5 h | 1.3k |
| Apr 19, 2016 | No storm report | 215 | 2% | 5.5 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jul 30, 2025 | No storm report | 259 | 3% | 4.5 h | – | 1.1k |
| Feb 28, 2018 | No storm report | 1,140 | 12% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.1k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Tornadoes | 706 | 8% | 4.8 h | 30 min | 1.1k |
| Jun 27, 2019 | No storm report | 2,091 | 23% | 30 min | 30 min | 1.0k |
| Mar 31, 2018 | No storm report | 457 | 5% | 2.0 h | – | 914 |
| Mar 8, 2024 | No storm report | 466 | 5% | 2.0 h | 4.2 h | 886 |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Winter storm | 220 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 762 |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Crawford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 62%
- Winter storm 31%
- Thunderstorms 5.2%
- Tornadoes 1.3%
- Heat 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Crawford
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 |
| Western Iowa Power Coop | IA | 27 | 27 | 0.27 | 13.5 | 69k |
| Nishnabotna Valley R E C | IA | 153 | 153 | 1.25 | 13.6 | 64k |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | IA | 39 | 39 | 0.56 | 14.0 | 49k |
| Harrison County Rrl Elec Coop | IA | 52 | 46 | 0.53 | 14.5 | 46k |
| City of Denison | IA | – | – | – | 7.8 | 35k |
| North West Rural Electric Coop | Cooperative | 188 | 115 | 1.11 | 9.4 | 9.5k |
| Town of Manilla | IA | – | – | – | 7.7 | 4.8k |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | Federal | – | – | – | – | – |
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.
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 9,213 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 →