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2019 Buchanan County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Buchanan County, IA went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2256th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buchanan County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 8, 2019 01:30 | February 8, 2019 06:45 | 5h 15m | 589 | 1,275 |
| 2 | April 12, 2019 20:30 | April 12, 2019 20:45 | 15m | 560 | 140 |
| 3 | June 30, 2019 18:45 | July 1, 2019 06:15 | 11h 30m | 409 | 1,796 |
| 4 | September 10, 2019 00:30 | September 10, 2019 22:45 | 22h 15m | 406 | 1,902 |
| 5 | April 27, 2019 14:15 | April 29, 2019 14:30 | 2d | 308 | 406 |
| 6 | October 4, 2019 13:45 | October 4, 2019 19:00 | 5h 15m | 308 | 1,151 |
| 7 | May 23, 2019 19:00 | May 23, 2019 22:30 | 3h 30m | 241 | 288 |
| 8 | April 22, 2019 06:15 | April 22, 2019 07:30 | 1h 15m | 240 | 240 |
| 9 | February 8, 2019 14:30 | February 8, 2019 16:30 | 2h | 197 | 51 |
| 10 | February 1, 2019 22:45 | February 2, 2019 02:30 | 3h 45m | 179 | 357 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 14 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 Buchanan County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 | 2018 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 | 75 min | 0.96 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2018 | 52 min | 0.96 | 50 min | 0.93 |
| City of Independence - (IA) | 2018 | 10 min | 0.42 | 10 min | 0.42 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (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 89% of Iowa's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,254 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan County, IA annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/iowa/buchanan-county