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2023 Linn County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Linn County, IA went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 349K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1968th 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 Linn 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 | July 28, 2023 19:00 | August 1, 2023 02:15 | 3d 7h | 30,010 | 184K |
| 2 | March 31, 2023 22:30 | April 2, 2023 02:15 | 1d 3h | 8,162 | 30K |
| 3 | June 4, 2023 11:45 | June 7, 2023 22:15 | 3d 10h | 4,474 | 17K |
| 4 | July 11, 2023 12:00 | July 12, 2023 11:30 | 23h 30m | 3,775 | 3,569 |
| 5 | May 7, 2023 21:45 | May 8, 2023 18:45 | 21h | 3,332 | 9,631 |
| 6 | March 14, 2023 13:15 | March 15, 2023 00:15 | 11h | 3,169 | 2,119 |
| 7 | January 24, 2023 11:15 | January 24, 2023 11:30 | 15m | 2,929 | 732 |
| 8 | June 23, 2023 12:15 | June 24, 2023 04:00 | 15h 45m | 2,603 | 7,776 |
| 9 | May 3, 2023 13:45 | May 5, 2023 20:45 | 2d 7h | 2,412 | 4,595 |
| 10 | September 19, 2023 14:15 | September 19, 2023 20:15 | 6h | 1,832 | 2,225 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 106 reached 100+ customers, 19 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2023 | 52 min | 0.65 | 52 min | 0.65 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.36 | 57 min | 0.66 |
| Linn County REC | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 1.82 | 2.1 hrs | 1.82 |
| 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 n/a of Iowa's customers in 2023; 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, 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/linn-county