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2015 Des Moines County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Des Moines County, IA went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 459th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Des Moines County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 21, 2015 01:00 | June 23, 2015 03:30 | 2d 2h | 6,275 | 58K |
| 2 | December 28, 2015 12:00 | December 30, 2015 01:15 | 1d 13h | 3,520 | 12K |
| 3 | February 1, 2015 07:00 | February 1, 2015 22:30 | 15h 30m | 2,260 | 7,666 |
| 4 | June 25, 2015 05:30 | June 25, 2015 18:45 | 13h 15m | 2,025 | 6,218 |
| 5 | June 11, 2015 02:45 | June 11, 2015 17:15 | 14h 30m | 1,596 | 9,125 |
| 6 | November 11, 2015 22:45 | November 12, 2015 07:30 | 8h 45m | 1,539 | 3,428 |
| 7 | October 3, 2015 21:15 | October 3, 2015 23:15 | 2h | 1,339 | 2,678 |
| 8 | November 26, 2015 20:45 | November 26, 2015 21:30 | 45m | 1,075 | 538 |
| 9 | September 30, 2015 21:45 | September 30, 2015 22:45 | 1h | 881 | 461 |
| 10 | May 27, 2015 02:45 | May 27, 2015 03:15 | 30m | 760 | 380 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 25 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Des Moines County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Iowa Light & Power Coop | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.50 | 1.7 hrs | 1.25 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Danville - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New London Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Iowa's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,207 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Des Moines County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Des Moines County, IA annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/iowa/des-moines-county