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2017 Van Buren County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Van Buren County, MI went without power for an average of 13.9 hours, a total of 262K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 400th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 | March 8, 2017 13:15 | March 12, 2017 06:00 | 3d 16h | 6,365 | 81K |
| 2 | April 30, 2017 13:45 | April 30, 2017 21:45 | 8h | 2,871 | 11K |
| 3 | June 14, 2017 23:15 | June 16, 2017 02:00 | 1d 2h | 2,553 | 20K |
| 4 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | July 10, 2017 19:45 | 3d 8h | 1,823 | 3,578 |
| 5 | June 17, 2017 21:00 | June 18, 2017 09:00 | 12h | 1,646 | 12K |
| 6 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 18, 2017 10:00 | 15h 15m | 1,616 | 8,874 |
| 7 | April 21, 2017 00:00 | April 21, 2017 09:15 | 9h 15m | 1,564 | 14K |
| 8 | July 13, 2017 07:30 | July 13, 2017 15:15 | 7h 45m | 1,547 | 1,206 |
| 9 | October 12, 2017 10:15 | October 12, 2017 10:45 | 30m | 1,497 | 749 |
| 10 | August 23, 2017 20:30 | August 23, 2017 20:45 | 15m | 1,440 | 360 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 74 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2017 | 10.1 hrs | 1.31 | 2.7 hrs | 0.89 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.56 | 3.9 hrs | 1.36 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| City of South Haven - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Paw Paw - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Michigan's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,916 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, MI 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/michigan/van-buren-county