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2019 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 9,801 customer-hours (Iowa average 2.2 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1598th 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 Van Buren 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 20, 2019 09:30 | February 20, 2019 13:30 | 4h | 1,405 | 1,819 |
| 2 | August 29, 2019 18:15 | August 29, 2019 20:00 | 1h 45m | 1,048 | 325 |
| 3 | June 26, 2019 00:45 | June 26, 2019 19:15 | 18h 30m | 466 | 1,544 |
| 4 | September 22, 2019 20:45 | September 22, 2019 22:30 | 1h 45m | 394 | 690 |
| 5 | July 14, 2019 11:15 | July 14, 2019 13:00 | 1h 45m | 281 | 492 |
| 6 | September 1, 2019 14:00 | September 1, 2019 18:30 | 4h 30m | 263 | 337 |
| 7 | October 8, 2019 17:15 | October 8, 2019 18:00 | 45m | 219 | 164 |
| 8 | December 21, 2019 14:15 | December 21, 2019 16:15 | 2h | 219 | 438 |
| 9 | July 17, 2019 19:00 | July 18, 2019 02:45 | 7h 45m | 205 | 483 |
| 10 | June 28, 2019 18:45 | June 28, 2019 20:15 | 1h 30m | 175 | 263 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 17 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2019; 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, 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/van-buren-county