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2017 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1092nd 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 Van Buren 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 | September 21, 2017 11:45 | September 21, 2017 16:45 | 5h | 479 | 1,136 |
| 2 | July 14, 2017 03:15 | July 14, 2017 10:00 | 6h 45m | 450 | 1,519 |
| 3 | March 7, 2017 04:00 | March 7, 2017 22:30 | 18h 30m | 406 | 2,001 |
| 4 | May 25, 2017 05:15 | May 25, 2017 07:00 | 1h 45m | 386 | 676 |
| 5 | July 31, 2017 05:45 | July 31, 2017 11:15 | 5h 30m | 305 | 948 |
| 6 | April 18, 2017 19:00 | April 18, 2017 22:00 | 3h | 295 | 885 |
| 7 | March 24, 2017 15:15 | March 24, 2017 16:30 | 1h 15m | 227 | 128 |
| 8 | July 6, 2017 03:30 | July 6, 2017 09:30 | 6h | 225 | 1,350 |
| 9 | December 8, 2017 06:30 | December 8, 2017 06:45 | 15m | 189 | 47 |
| 10 | December 8, 2017 11:00 | December 8, 2017 11:15 | 15m | 189 | 47 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 10 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Iowa Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 2.1 hrs | 1.13 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/van-buren-county