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2016 Buchanan County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Buchanan County, IA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1613th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buchanan County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 22, 2016 14:00 | September 22, 2016 18:15 | 4h 15m | 1,498 | 1,907 |
| 2 | November 5, 2016 14:00 | November 5, 2016 15:45 | 1h 45m | 1,493 | 2,415 |
| 3 | December 7, 2016 16:45 | December 7, 2016 19:15 | 2h 30m | 1,323 | 607 |
| 4 | May 26, 2016 10:00 | May 27, 2016 00:30 | 14h 30m | 840 | 4,062 |
| 5 | June 12, 2016 09:30 | June 12, 2016 11:30 | 2h | 388 | 731 |
| 6 | September 19, 2016 06:15 | September 19, 2016 07:30 | 1h 15m | 359 | 397 |
| 7 | July 17, 2016 10:15 | July 17, 2016 21:15 | 11h | 309 | 742 |
| 8 | September 7, 2016 05:15 | September 7, 2016 06:45 | 1h 30m | 258 | 352 |
| 9 | December 26, 2016 21:30 | December 27, 2016 03:15 | 5h 45m | 217 | 693 |
| 10 | June 30, 2016 21:45 | June 30, 2016 23:00 | 1h 15m | 215 | 248 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 19 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Buchanan County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2016 | 3.6 hrs | 1.64 | 83 min | 0.90 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2016 | 78 min | 1.19 | 63 min | 1.01 |
| City of Independence - (IA) | 2016 | 52 min | 0.92 | 1 min | 0.02 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,254 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan County, IA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/iowa/buchanan-county