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2015 Van Buren County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Van Buren County, MI went without power for an average of 14.9 hours, a total of 282K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.8 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 80 Michigan counties and 170th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 | May 17, 2015 18:15 | May 18, 2015 01:00 | 6h 45m | 7,024 | 30K |
| 2 | May 30, 2015 18:15 | May 31, 2015 20:00 | 1d 1h | 2,936 | 31K |
| 3 | May 16, 2015 13:45 | May 16, 2015 20:30 | 6h 45m | 2,447 | 5,013 |
| 4 | May 5, 2015 11:15 | May 5, 2015 16:45 | 5h 30m | 2,184 | 5,472 |
| 5 | May 23, 2015 22:15 | May 24, 2015 06:15 | 8h | 1,701 | 5,642 |
| 6 | December 23, 2015 23:30 | December 25, 2015 03:15 | 1d 3h | 1,698 | 8,172 |
| 7 | December 28, 2015 15:00 | December 31, 2015 00:15 | 2d 9h | 1,605 | 35K |
| 8 | May 10, 2015 12:00 | May 10, 2015 17:00 | 5h | 1,566 | 5,926 |
| 9 | April 17, 2015 09:00 | April 17, 2015 15:15 | 6h 15m | 1,541 | 6,166 |
| 10 | November 21, 2015 07:15 | November 23, 2015 03:15 | 1d 20h | 1,509 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 70 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2015 | 7.3 hrs | 1.18 | 3.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2015 | 7.6 hrs | 1.49 | 3.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| City of South Haven - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Paw Paw - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Michigan's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,916 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, MI 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/michigan/van-buren-county