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2018 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 887th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Van Buren County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 19, 2018 23:15 | July 21, 2018 19:15 | 1d 20h | 1,115 | 11K |
| 2 | June 28, 2018 19:15 | June 29, 2018 00:00 | 4h 45m | 637 | 1,080 |
| 3 | August 9, 2018 07:00 | August 9, 2018 11:00 | 4h | 457 | 1,293 |
| 4 | June 14, 2018 18:15 | June 14, 2018 23:15 | 5h | 300 | 364 |
| 5 | July 9, 2018 22:15 | July 10, 2018 02:45 | 4h 30m | 191 | 651 |
| 6 | May 3, 2018 20:00 | May 3, 2018 22:30 | 2h 30m | 185 | 459 |
| 7 | August 11, 2018 08:45 | August 11, 2018 10:15 | 1h 30m | 168 | 185 |
| 8 | July 18, 2018 19:45 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 3h 30m | 127 | 445 |
| 9 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | July 19, 2018 02:15 | 2h | 127 | 254 |
| 10 | March 26, 2018 19:15 | March 27, 2018 01:00 | 5h 45m | 113 | 479 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 10 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 Van Buren County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 | 1.9 hrs | 1.00 |
| 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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/iowa/van-buren-county