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2016 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 4,171 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.8 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1616th 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 Van Buren 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 | January 23, 2016 19:00 | January 23, 2016 19:45 | 45m | 288 | 216 |
| 2 | March 22, 2016 03:15 | March 22, 2016 06:00 | 2h 45m | 278 | 765 |
| 3 | August 25, 2016 17:30 | August 25, 2016 18:30 | 1h | 253 | 253 |
| 4 | June 8, 2016 21:15 | June 8, 2016 21:45 | 30m | 176 | 45 |
| 5 | October 14, 2016 03:45 | October 14, 2016 08:45 | 5h | 99 | 491 |
| 6 | September 22, 2016 14:30 | September 22, 2016 15:00 | 30m | 68 | 34 |
| 7 | August 20, 2016 13:30 | August 20, 2016 15:30 | 2h | 59 | 69 |
| 8 | September 16, 2016 11:45 | September 16, 2016 14:30 | 2h 45m | 46 | 127 |
| 9 | August 5, 2016 01:00 | August 5, 2016 11:30 | 10h 30m | 42 | 266 |
| 10 | July 8, 2016 12:00 | July 8, 2016 14:45 | 2h 45m | 40 | 110 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Iowa Elec Coop, Inc | 2016 | 64 min | 0.61 | 64 min | 0.61 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/van-buren-county