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2017 Buchanan County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Buchanan County, IA went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2075th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buchanan County, 2017
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, 2017 20:00 | May 18, 2017 11:30 | 15h 30m | 1,471 | 5,105 |
| 2 | July 10, 2017 07:30 | July 10, 2017 17:00 | 9h 30m | 450 | 1,571 |
| 3 | May 23, 2017 00:00 | May 23, 2017 01:45 | 1h 45m | 398 | 300 |
| 4 | May 1, 2017 02:30 | May 1, 2017 04:00 | 1h 30m | 316 | 372 |
| 5 | May 9, 2017 05:15 | May 9, 2017 06:30 | 1h 15m | 246 | 230 |
| 6 | July 21, 2017 11:15 | July 21, 2017 15:30 | 4h 15m | 205 | 326 |
| 7 | November 8, 2017 12:30 | November 8, 2017 17:00 | 4h 30m | 181 | 634 |
| 8 | December 26, 2017 01:30 | December 26, 2017 04:00 | 2h 30m | 180 | 450 |
| 9 | October 17, 2017 19:00 | October 17, 2017 21:15 | 2h 15m | 173 | 146 |
| 10 | December 13, 2017 16:45 | December 13, 2017 19:30 | 2h 45m | 154 | 193 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 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 Buchanan County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.6 hrs | 0.91 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2017 | 76 min | 1.06 | 63 min | 0.96 |
| City of Independence - (IA) | 2017 | 10 min | 0.46 | 10 min | 0.46 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/iowa/buchanan-county