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2020 Jackson County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Jackson County, IA went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1234th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jackson County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 10, 2020 18:45 | August 19, 2020 19:00 | 9d | 1,072 | 55K |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 03:00 | January 11, 2020 22:45 | 19h 45m | 771 | 3,478 |
| 3 | March 1, 2020 21:00 | March 1, 2020 22:30 | 1h 30m | 362 | 407 |
| 4 | December 28, 2020 16:15 | December 28, 2020 23:30 | 7h 15m | 159 | 81 |
| 5 | August 23, 2020 06:30 | August 23, 2020 13:15 | 6h 45m | 130 | 80 |
| 6 | July 12, 2020 00:45 | July 12, 2020 06:45 | 6h | 115 | 348 |
| 7 | October 2, 2020 14:15 | October 2, 2020 16:15 | 2h | 108 | 189 |
| 8 | January 13, 2020 14:15 | January 13, 2020 15:15 | 1h | 91 | 91 |
| 9 | August 30, 2020 20:00 | August 30, 2020 22:15 | 2h 15m | 78 | 79 |
| 10 | August 6, 2020 11:15 | August 6, 2020 11:45 | 30m | 77 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 7 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 10.6 hrs | 2.12 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2020 | 4.5 hrs | 1.12 | 73 min | 0.75 |
| 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 91% of Iowa's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/iowa/jackson-county