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2021 Jackson County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Jackson County, IA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 9,300 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 90th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2702nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jackson County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 25, 2021 13:15 | March 25, 2021 15:00 | 1h 45m | 488 | 245 |
| 2 | August 24, 2021 21:45 | August 25, 2021 11:45 | 14h | 476 | 2,008 |
| 3 | June 21, 2021 01:30 | June 21, 2021 09:00 | 7h 30m | 236 | 981 |
| 4 | December 16, 2021 03:30 | December 16, 2021 13:45 | 10h 15m | 175 | 437 |
| 5 | July 5, 2021 01:00 | July 5, 2021 05:45 | 4h 45m | 123 | 584 |
| 6 | May 4, 2021 12:30 | May 4, 2021 12:45 | 15m | 103 | 26 |
| 7 | May 28, 2021 12:00 | May 28, 2021 12:30 | 30m | 103 | 52 |
| 8 | July 29, 2021 07:45 | July 29, 2021 13:00 | 5h 15m | 97 | 86 |
| 9 | August 3, 2021 19:15 | August 3, 2021 20:45 | 1h 30m | 90 | 134 |
| 10 | May 4, 2021 08:30 | May 4, 2021 10:30 | 2h | 89 | 142 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 7 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | 1.31 | 1.8 hrs | 1.22 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2021 | 88 min | 0.93 | 56 min | 0.71 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/iowa/jackson-county