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2016 Jones County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jones County, IA went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1233rd 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 Jones 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 | July 6, 2016 08:00 | July 6, 2016 23:45 | 15h 45m | 3,120 | 8,869 |
| 2 | September 12, 2016 16:45 | September 12, 2016 17:00 | 15m | 897 | 224 |
| 3 | November 18, 2016 16:45 | November 18, 2016 17:00 | 15m | 837 | 209 |
| 4 | June 24, 2016 22:00 | June 24, 2016 23:30 | 1h 30m | 836 | 837 |
| 5 | February 2, 2016 15:15 | February 2, 2016 18:30 | 3h 15m | 576 | 623 |
| 6 | April 2, 2016 14:15 | April 2, 2016 20:00 | 5h 45m | 539 | 1,244 |
| 7 | May 28, 2016 20:15 | May 29, 2016 10:45 | 14h 30m | 489 | 321 |
| 8 | October 19, 2016 00:15 | October 19, 2016 05:00 | 4h 45m | 463 | 935 |
| 9 | September 15, 2016 16:15 | September 16, 2016 00:30 | 8h 15m | 392 | 663 |
| 10 | October 3, 2016 10:30 | October 3, 2016 10:45 | 15m | 346 | 87 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 17 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 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 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2016 | 78 min | 1.19 | 63 min | 1.01 |
| Linn County REC | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.29 | 1.7 hrs | 1.29 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/jones-county