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2019 Linn County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Linn County, IA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 187K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2245th 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 Linn 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 | May 23, 2019 19:00 | May 24, 2019 01:30 | 6h 30m | 4,204 | 6,907 |
| 2 | September 10, 2019 03:45 | September 10, 2019 13:30 | 9h 45m | 4,157 | 6,867 |
| 3 | June 30, 2019 20:45 | July 3, 2019 08:30 | 2d 11h | 3,825 | 11K |
| 4 | March 25, 2019 14:15 | March 25, 2019 22:30 | 8h 15m | 3,734 | 4,482 |
| 5 | November 20, 2019 02:45 | November 20, 2019 12:00 | 9h 15m | 3,648 | 7,355 |
| 6 | March 28, 2019 13:45 | March 28, 2019 20:45 | 7h | 3,004 | 4,204 |
| 7 | June 29, 2019 22:15 | June 30, 2019 07:15 | 9h | 2,812 | 5,868 |
| 8 | February 7, 2019 16:30 | February 8, 2019 14:00 | 21h 30m | 2,789 | 5,885 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 00:45 | November 27, 2019 03:15 | 2h 30m | 2,735 | 1,906 |
| 10 | September 6, 2019 13:00 | September 10, 2019 00:45 | 3d 11h | 2,632 | 5,013 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 136 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 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) | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2019; 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, 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/linn-county