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2020 Linn County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Linn County, IA went without power for an average of 136.1 hours, a total of 16.1M customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 39th 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 Linn 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 13:45 | August 29, 2020 08:00 | 18d 18h | 109,389 | 15.8M |
| 2 | July 11, 2020 15:30 | July 14, 2020 03:15 | 2d 11h | 19,584 | 112K |
| 3 | November 2, 2020 15:30 | November 4, 2020 00:15 | 1d 8h | 6,825 | 15K |
| 4 | September 6, 2020 08:00 | September 7, 2020 01:45 | 17h 45m | 4,237 | 16K |
| 5 | September 30, 2020 13:45 | September 30, 2020 22:30 | 8h 45m | 4,132 | 4,388 |
| 6 | October 29, 2020 13:30 | October 30, 2020 01:45 | 12h 15m | 3,557 | 3,121 |
| 7 | August 31, 2020 03:15 | September 3, 2020 00:45 | 2d 21h | 2,265 | 8,761 |
| 8 | September 7, 2020 02:45 | September 8, 2020 03:15 | 1d | 2,177 | 2,427 |
| 9 | September 3, 2020 12:45 | September 5, 2020 02:45 | 1d 14h | 2,103 | 4,406 |
| 10 | April 23, 2020 01:00 | April 23, 2020 07:15 | 6h 15m | 1,718 | 1,056 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 118 reached 100+ customers, 23 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2020 | 14.1 hrs | 1.01 | 54 min | 0.59 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2020 | 4.5 hrs | 1.12 | 73 min | 0.75 |
| Linn County REC | 2020 | 58.0 hrs | 3.02 | 2.6 hrs | 1.74 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 91% of Iowa's customers in 2020; 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, 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/linn-county