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2018 Van Buren County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Van Buren County, MI went without power for an average of 17.4 hours, a total of 329K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 321st of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 | January 22, 2018 09:30 | January 22, 2018 18:00 | 8h 30m | 3,629 | 14K |
| 2 | October 20, 2018 01:30 | October 26, 2018 02:00 | 6d | 3,567 | 65K |
| 3 | February 25, 2018 05:30 | February 26, 2018 01:00 | 19h 30m | 2,978 | 20K |
| 4 | July 20, 2018 18:30 | July 21, 2018 18:00 | 23h 30m | 2,772 | 20K |
| 5 | May 23, 2018 15:30 | May 24, 2018 00:45 | 9h 15m | 2,098 | 4,503 |
| 6 | June 9, 2018 06:15 | June 9, 2018 21:45 | 15h 30m | 2,001 | 2,197 |
| 7 | September 16, 2018 15:00 | September 16, 2018 21:30 | 6h 30m | 1,454 | 7,617 |
| 8 | June 27, 2018 11:30 | June 27, 2018 17:30 | 6h | 1,395 | 5,971 |
| 9 | June 22, 2018 22:00 | June 23, 2018 09:45 | 11h 45m | 1,390 | 3,317 |
| 10 | September 3, 2018 18:30 | September 5, 2018 04:15 | 1d 9h | 1,331 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 75 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.29 | 3.3 hrs | 1.02 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.53 | 4.1 hrs | 1.30 |
| 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 91% of Michigan's customers in 2018; 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, 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/michigan/van-buren-county