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2015 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 583rd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Van Buren County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 21, 2015 00:15 | June 22, 2015 00:45 | 1d | 487 | 4,232 |
| 2 | June 15, 2015 04:45 | June 15, 2015 06:30 | 1h 45m | 456 | 762 |
| 3 | November 12, 2015 11:00 | November 12, 2015 14:15 | 3h 15m | 452 | 811 |
| 4 | November 17, 2015 08:30 | November 17, 2015 10:15 | 1h 45m | 450 | 607 |
| 5 | February 1, 2015 19:15 | February 1, 2015 21:30 | 2h 15m | 409 | 920 |
| 6 | December 28, 2015 20:00 | December 28, 2015 22:00 | 2h | 406 | 812 |
| 7 | June 11, 2015 02:30 | June 11, 2015 06:45 | 4h 15m | 305 | 613 |
| 8 | May 9, 2015 08:00 | May 9, 2015 11:00 | 3h | 219 | 615 |
| 9 | December 14, 2015 08:30 | December 14, 2015 09:30 | 1h | 219 | 135 |
| 10 | April 8, 2015 18:15 | April 8, 2015 19:45 | 1h 30m | 183 | 238 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 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 Van Buren County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Iowa Elec Coop, Inc | 2015 | 4.4 hrs | 2.16 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Access Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Keosauqua Municipal Light & Pwr | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 3,146 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. Van Buren County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Van Buren County, IA annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/iowa/van-buren-county