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2019 Jones County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Jones County, IA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1997th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jones County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 16, 2019 11:15 | June 16, 2019 13:00 | 1h 45m | 1,496 | 843 |
| 2 | August 6, 2019 14:00 | August 6, 2019 22:45 | 8h 45m | 1,413 | 388 |
| 3 | November 22, 2019 15:15 | November 22, 2019 18:15 | 3h | 978 | 262 |
| 4 | April 27, 2019 12:45 | April 29, 2019 14:15 | 2d 1h | 789 | 1,099 |
| 5 | November 7, 2019 19:15 | November 7, 2019 21:15 | 2h | 595 | 300 |
| 6 | June 30, 2019 22:45 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 7d 3h | 539 | 3,530 |
| 7 | April 4, 2019 04:30 | April 4, 2019 12:15 | 7h 45m | 486 | 2,626 |
| 8 | July 18, 2019 17:45 | July 18, 2019 19:15 | 1h 30m | 468 | 166 |
| 9 | November 26, 2019 14:45 | November 26, 2019 17:15 | 2h 30m | 460 | 124 |
| 10 | August 9, 2019 22:00 | August 9, 2019 23:00 | 1h | 459 | 347 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 24 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2019, 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 |
| Linn County REC | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.13 | 2.6 hrs | 1.13 |
| 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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/iowa/jones-county