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2016 Des Moines County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Des Moines County, IA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1358th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Des Moines County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 26, 2016 05:15 | December 26, 2016 08:00 | 2h 45m | 2,813 | 5,929 |
| 2 | August 27, 2016 03:00 | August 27, 2016 04:45 | 1h 45m | 2,237 | 1,120 |
| 3 | September 8, 2016 01:00 | September 8, 2016 20:15 | 19h 15m | 1,899 | 3,975 |
| 4 | August 2, 2016 17:30 | August 11, 2016 14:15 | 8d 20h | 1,651 | 2,862 |
| 5 | October 3, 2016 16:00 | October 3, 2016 16:45 | 45m | 1,601 | 834 |
| 6 | September 6, 2016 19:45 | September 6, 2016 21:45 | 2h | 1,336 | 1,003 |
| 7 | June 23, 2016 10:45 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 40d 5h | 1,334 | 4,140 |
| 8 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 25, 2016 21:15 | 13d | 1,179 | 2,168 |
| 9 | May 12, 2016 16:45 | June 20, 2016 23:15 | 39d 6h | 1,175 | 2,791 |
| 10 | September 12, 2016 16:45 | September 13, 2016 02:00 | 9h 15m | 522 | 1,652 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 30 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.06 | 88 min | 0.92 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/iowa/des-moines-county