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2015 Linn County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Linn County, IA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1601st 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 Linn 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 | May 22, 2015 05:45 | May 22, 2015 08:15 | 2h 30m | 7,658 | 8,190 |
| 2 | June 7, 2015 21:15 | June 8, 2015 02:45 | 5h 30m | 5,348 | 7,694 |
| 3 | June 18, 2015 21:15 | June 18, 2015 23:30 | 2h 15m | 5,293 | 2,648 |
| 4 | June 23, 2015 23:15 | June 23, 2015 23:45 | 30m | 5,292 | 2,646 |
| 5 | November 24, 2015 15:30 | November 24, 2015 15:45 | 15m | 5,200 | 1,300 |
| 6 | February 1, 2015 03:15 | February 2, 2015 05:45 | 1d 2h | 4,710 | 17K |
| 7 | December 10, 2015 16:45 | December 10, 2015 20:30 | 3h 45m | 4,100 | 3,011 |
| 8 | October 7, 2015 09:30 | October 8, 2015 01:30 | 16h | 4,056 | 6,769 |
| 9 | April 19, 2015 13:00 | April 19, 2015 22:45 | 9h 45m | 3,624 | 2,847 |
| 10 | June 30, 2015 03:00 | June 30, 2015 14:30 | 11h 30m | 2,938 | 6,035 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 118 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Linn 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Coggon - (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 ÷ 118,247 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. Linn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Linn 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/linn-county