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2015 Lee County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Lee County, IA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 827th 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 Lee 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 00:45 | June 23, 2015 03:15 | 2d 2h | 3,067 | 32K |
| 2 | October 28, 2015 15:00 | October 28, 2015 21:15 | 6h 15m | 2,473 | 1,250 |
| 3 | January 8, 2015 01:30 | January 8, 2015 03:00 | 1h 30m | 1,740 | 1,411 |
| 4 | June 24, 2015 20:00 | June 24, 2015 20:15 | 15m | 1,633 | 408 |
| 5 | June 24, 2015 21:15 | June 24, 2015 21:45 | 30m | 1,633 | 817 |
| 6 | October 23, 2015 22:45 | October 24, 2015 00:30 | 1h 45m | 1,167 | 609 |
| 7 | July 16, 2015 13:15 | July 16, 2015 13:45 | 30m | 1,040 | 520 |
| 8 | June 11, 2015 03:00 | June 11, 2015 08:45 | 5h 45m | 740 | 768 |
| 9 | December 28, 2015 10:30 | December 29, 2015 02:45 | 16h 15m | 738 | 2,144 |
| 10 | February 1, 2015 11:45 | February 2, 2015 00:15 | 12h 30m | 461 | 1,763 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 31 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| West Point Utility System | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,486 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/iowa/lee-county