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2023 Jackson County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Jackson County, IA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1658th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jackson County, 2023
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 31, 2023 23:30 | April 3, 2023 13:15 | 2d 13h | 2,111 | 21K |
| 2 | October 30, 2023 16:15 | October 30, 2023 21:15 | 5h | 829 | 739 |
| 3 | July 29, 2023 02:00 | July 30, 2023 18:45 | 1d 16h | 705 | 6,080 |
| 4 | February 23, 2023 13:45 | February 24, 2023 16:00 | 1d 2h | 244 | 1,208 |
| 5 | October 4, 2023 00:00 | October 4, 2023 01:30 | 1h 30m | 160 | 41 |
| 6 | March 25, 2023 00:45 | March 27, 2023 15:00 | 2d 14h | 123 | 2,564 |
| 7 | April 16, 2023 03:30 | April 17, 2023 13:45 | 1d 10h | 119 | 992 |
| 8 | April 12, 2023 20:15 | April 13, 2023 11:15 | 15h | 113 | 644 |
| 9 | July 22, 2023 21:45 | July 24, 2023 12:45 | 1d 15h | 103 | 532 |
| 10 | August 8, 2023 21:15 | August 9, 2023 11:15 | 14h | 94 | 70 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 9 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.1 hrs | 1.23 | 1.7 hrs | 0.98 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.36 | 57 min | 0.66 |
| 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 n/a of Iowa's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/iowa/jackson-county