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2016 Linn County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Linn County, IA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 158K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1611th 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 Linn 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 11, 2016 03:15 | July 11, 2016 14:15 | 11h | 8,006 | 9,590 |
| 2 | February 2, 2016 15:00 | February 2, 2016 23:30 | 8h 30m | 5,085 | 9,048 |
| 3 | November 18, 2016 14:30 | November 18, 2016 19:30 | 5h | 4,573 | 1,453 |
| 4 | June 14, 2016 00:15 | June 14, 2016 02:15 | 2h | 3,937 | 2,956 |
| 5 | July 6, 2016 05:45 | July 7, 2016 03:15 | 21h 30m | 3,175 | 11K |
| 6 | June 16, 2016 05:45 | June 16, 2016 10:00 | 4h 15m | 3,092 | 5,785 |
| 7 | August 23, 2016 14:30 | August 23, 2016 18:30 | 4h | 3,072 | 815 |
| 8 | July 17, 2016 10:00 | July 18, 2016 09:15 | 23h 15m | 2,584 | 5,544 |
| 9 | September 21, 2016 14:15 | September 21, 2016 15:15 | 1h | 2,498 | 686 |
| 10 | October 15, 2016 17:15 | October 24, 2016 13:45 | 8d 20h | 2,472 | 3,256 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 128 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/linn-county