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2018 Jackson County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Jackson County, IA went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 2,294 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 99th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2615th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jackson County, 2018
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 31, 2018 11:15 | October 31, 2018 11:30 | 15m | 487 | 122 |
| 2 | October 26, 2018 14:30 | October 26, 2018 15:00 | 30m | 196 | 98 |
| 3 | July 13, 2018 23:15 | July 14, 2018 02:15 | 3h | 179 | 254 |
| 4 | November 2, 2018 14:15 | November 2, 2018 16:00 | 1h 45m | 146 | 256 |
| 5 | October 16, 2018 14:15 | October 16, 2018 17:15 | 3h | 130 | 387 |
| 6 | June 25, 2018 16:30 | June 25, 2018 17:45 | 1h 15m | 79 | 92 |
| 7 | September 15, 2018 08:00 | September 15, 2018 10:15 | 2h 15m | 69 | 39 |
| 8 | September 25, 2018 17:15 | September 25, 2018 19:30 | 2h 15m | 57 | 23 |
| 9 | September 2, 2018 04:45 | September 2, 2018 14:30 | 9h 45m | 44 | 182 |
| 10 | June 9, 2018 09:45 | June 9, 2018 21:15 | 11h 30m | 34 | 36 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Jackson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 0.92 | 1.7 hrs | 0.85 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2018 | 52 min | 0.96 | 50 min | 0.93 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Maquoketa - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bellevue - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Preston | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Sabula - (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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 10,302 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson County, IA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/iowa/jackson-county