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2024 Jones County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Jones County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2434th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Jones County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 28, 2024 13:30 | May 28, 2024 17:45 | 4h 15m | 1,480 | 379 |
| 2 | May 22, 2024 00:15 | May 23, 2024 01:00 | 1d | 879 | 1,497 |
| 3 | July 26, 2024 21:00 | July 29, 2024 12:30 | 2d 15h | 520 | 283 |
| 4 | May 24, 2024 11:15 | May 24, 2024 15:15 | 4h | 433 | 563 |
| 5 | November 3, 2024 07:15 | November 3, 2024 07:30 | 15m | 368 | 92 |
| 6 | April 20, 2024 07:30 | April 20, 2024 08:00 | 30m | 360 | 180 |
| 7 | July 15, 2024 23:15 | July 16, 2024 08:15 | 9h | 271 | 479 |
| 8 | May 23, 2024 03:15 | May 23, 2024 03:45 | 30m | 235 | 118 |
| 9 | November 19, 2024 03:15 | November 19, 2024 07:30 | 4h 15m | 135 | 121 |
| 10 | June 28, 2024 12:00 | June 28, 2024 13:30 | 1h 30m | 120 | 146 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 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 Jones County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 3.7 hrs | 1.29 | 1.6 hrs | 0.90 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 1.20 | 71 min | 0.82 |
| Linn County REC | 2024 | 1.9 hrs | 1.50 | 1.9 hrs | 1.50 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cascade Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,507 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. Jones County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jones County, IA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/iowa/jones-county