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Iowa: official power outage sources
The Iowa Utilities Commission reports two rate-regulated investor-owned utilities, MidAmerican Energy and Alliant Energy (Interstate Power and Light), plus 135 city utilities and 44 rural electric cooperatives. Amana Society Service Company is a small additional investor-owned utility. Alliant Energy customers should use Alliant's own outage center.
Outages in Iowa right now
Not shown on this site. Power Grid Watch does not have live outage information for Iowa. That does not mean there are no outages. Use the official links below to check and to report.
If your power is out
- Stay away from downed lines and anything touching them. Call 911.
- Report it to your own utility. The name and outage phone number are on your electric bill. Do not assume a neighbor has reported it.
- Check your utility's outage page for the area affected and any restoration estimate. Only your utility can give that estimate.
Utility outage pages
Each link covers only that utility's own customers. If your provider is not listed here, use the directories in the next section.
- MidAmerican Energy Outage page midamericanenergy.com
- City of Ames Electric Services Outage page cityofames.org
Official state sources
Use these to find out which utility serves an address, to reach the regulator, and to follow state emergency information.
- Iowa Utilities Commission: utility companies serving Iowa Provider directory iuc.iowa.gov
- Iowa Utilities Commission: electric service area boundary map Provider directory Shows which utility is assigned to serve each area. iuc.iowa.gov
- Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives: outages Provider directory Helps cooperative members reach their own co-op. iowarec.org
- Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management: hazard mitigation Emergency management homelandsecurity.iowa.gov
- National Weather Service Weather alerts Enter your town or ZIP code for current watches and warnings. A weather warning is not an outage prediction. weather.gov
Good to know in Iowa
- City utility and cooperative customers should check with their own provider; MidAmerican's and Alliant's maps do not cover them.
- On utility outage maps, a pin can be miles from the affected homes; it does not show exact addresses.
- Some cooperatives based in Minnesota or Missouri serve parts of Iowa.
- Farmers Electric in Greenfield and Farmers Electric in Kalona are different cooperatives.
The wider grid
Regional grid organizations and balancing areas that cover all or part of Iowa: MISO; SPP; Associated Electric Cooperative. They balance supply and demand on the high-voltage system. Their alerts describe the regional system, not an outage on your street. How the pieces fit together
Links on this page were last reviewed on . Official pages move; if a link is broken or a provider is missing, tell us.