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2015 Jones County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Jones County, IA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 6,041 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1942nd 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 Jones 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 8, 2015 20:15 | October 8, 2015 21:00 | 45m | 1,453 | 494 |
| 2 | December 14, 2015 11:00 | December 14, 2015 13:45 | 2h 45m | 462 | 1,271 |
| 3 | April 18, 2015 11:15 | April 18, 2015 13:15 | 2h | 382 | 668 |
| 4 | April 16, 2015 14:00 | April 16, 2015 14:45 | 45m | 362 | 135 |
| 5 | December 10, 2015 19:30 | December 10, 2015 20:45 | 1h 15m | 336 | 252 |
| 6 | September 18, 2015 04:00 | September 18, 2015 06:00 | 2h | 303 | 461 |
| 7 | April 16, 2015 18:00 | April 16, 2015 18:30 | 30m | 176 | 44 |
| 8 | May 18, 2015 13:45 | May 18, 2015 14:00 | 15m | 176 | 44 |
| 9 | May 21, 2015 13:15 | May 21, 2015 13:30 | 15m | 176 | 44 |
| 10 | October 1, 2015 13:15 | October 1, 2015 16:45 | 3h 30m | 146 | 460 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Jones 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 |
| Linn County REC | 2015 | 1.6 hrs | 1.13 | 1.6 hrs | 1.11 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cascade 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 ÷ 8,507 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. Jones County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones 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/jones-county