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2016 Lee County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lee County, IA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1633rd 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 Lee 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 | October 2, 2016 05:30 | October 2, 2016 07:00 | 1h 30m | 2,534 | 3,801 |
| 2 | July 25, 2016 01:30 | July 25, 2016 03:45 | 2h 15m | 1,891 | 2,532 |
| 3 | May 20, 2016 13:30 | May 20, 2016 15:00 | 1h 30m | 1,131 | 483 |
| 4 | March 9, 2016 03:30 | March 9, 2016 04:15 | 45m | 1,006 | 504 |
| 5 | October 5, 2016 21:30 | October 6, 2016 01:00 | 3h 30m | 730 | 1,029 |
| 6 | April 8, 2016 20:15 | April 8, 2016 23:30 | 3h 15m | 465 | 125 |
| 7 | June 8, 2016 12:00 | June 8, 2016 21:30 | 9h 30m | 446 | 437 |
| 8 | September 28, 2016 09:15 | September 28, 2016 12:00 | 2h 45m | 370 | 190 |
| 9 | August 20, 2016 04:00 | August 20, 2016 09:00 | 5h | 363 | 1,452 |
| 10 | May 10, 2016 03:45 | May 10, 2016 05:00 | 1h 15m | 346 | 433 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 31 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2016; 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, 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/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/iowa/lee-county