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2015 Jackson County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Jackson County, IA went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 3,326 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 86th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2175th 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 Jackson 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 | October 28, 2015 22:00 | October 29, 2015 02:30 | 4h 30m | 532 | 1,422 |
| 2 | June 23, 2015 18:00 | June 23, 2015 19:15 | 1h 15m | 171 | 128 |
| 3 | December 2, 2015 15:00 | December 2, 2015 16:45 | 1h 45m | 170 | 261 |
| 4 | December 2, 2015 22:30 | December 3, 2015 00:15 | 1h 45m | 170 | 298 |
| 5 | September 18, 2015 22:00 | September 18, 2015 23:45 | 1h 45m | 148 | 259 |
| 6 | December 14, 2015 21:00 | December 14, 2015 21:15 | 15m | 83 | 21 |
| 7 | June 22, 2015 15:00 | June 23, 2015 01:00 | 10h | 81 | 267 |
| 8 | June 24, 2015 12:30 | June 24, 2015 13:45 | 1h 15m | 79 | 78 |
| 9 | June 12, 2015 15:15 | June 12, 2015 17:00 | 1h 45m | 59 | 74 |
| 10 | November 12, 2015 01:00 | November 12, 2015 04:15 | 3h 15m | 40 | 130 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Jackson 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 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2015 | 58 min | 0.96 | 39 min | 0.86 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Maquoketa - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bellevue - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Preston | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sabula - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,302 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county