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2017 Buena Vista County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Buena Vista County, IA went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 6,870 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 88th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2243rd 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 Buena Vista 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 | January 14, 2017 23:00 | January 15, 2017 03:15 | 4h 15m | 782 | 201 |
| 2 | February 6, 2017 21:15 | February 6, 2017 21:30 | 15m | 533 | 133 |
| 3 | February 7, 2017 10:15 | February 7, 2017 10:30 | 15m | 485 | 121 |
| 4 | February 18, 2017 22:15 | February 20, 2017 14:00 | 1d 15h | 120 | 3,100 |
| 5 | June 11, 2017 13:15 | June 11, 2017 15:30 | 2h 15m | 119 | 207 |
| 6 | February 15, 2017 19:30 | February 15, 2017 20:15 | 45m | 77 | 58 |
| 7 | December 19, 2017 14:15 | December 19, 2017 18:00 | 3h 45m | 72 | 270 |
| 8 | October 27, 2017 16:00 | October 27, 2017 17:30 | 1h 30m | 68 | 101 |
| 9 | March 16, 2017 17:00 | March 16, 2017 23:30 | 6h 30m | 67 | 289 |
| 10 | July 10, 2017 19:45 | July 10, 2017 20:45 | 1h | 67 | 67 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 Buena Vista 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2017 | 48 min | 0.56 | 48 min | 0.56 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alta - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Marathon - (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 ÷ 11,607 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. Buena Vista County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buena Vista 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/buena-vista-county