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2019 Van Buren County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Van Buren County, MI went without power for an average of 20.3 hours, a total of 384K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 213th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 | November 27, 2019 13:00 | November 29, 2019 22:30 | 2d 9h | 6,070 | 64K |
| 2 | February 7, 2019 18:45 | February 10, 2019 18:15 | 2d 23h | 4,016 | 45K |
| 3 | November 4, 2019 21:30 | November 6, 2019 01:30 | 1d 4h | 3,944 | 17K |
| 4 | February 24, 2019 12:30 | February 26, 2019 22:45 | 2d 10h | 3,619 | 67K |
| 5 | February 3, 2019 00:15 | February 3, 2019 12:00 | 11h 45m | 3,017 | 15K |
| 6 | October 16, 2019 00:30 | October 16, 2019 04:15 | 3h 45m | 2,817 | 3,530 |
| 7 | June 8, 2019 15:45 | June 9, 2019 10:30 | 18h 45m | 2,776 | 23K |
| 8 | July 20, 2019 04:30 | July 23, 2019 10:30 | 3d 6h | 1,891 | 24K |
| 9 | July 8, 2019 08:00 | July 8, 2019 23:45 | 15h 45m | 1,815 | 4,926 |
| 10 | February 12, 2019 05:45 | February 13, 2019 21:45 | 1d 16h | 1,549 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 90 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 96% of Michigan's customers in 2019; 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, 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/michigan/van-buren-county