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2020 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Iowa average 27.4 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1223rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Van Buren County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 27, 2020 05:30 | June 27, 2020 21:15 | 15h 45m | 672 | 3,755 |
| 2 | May 24, 2020 20:00 | May 24, 2020 22:15 | 2h 15m | 404 | 906 |
| 3 | January 18, 2020 04:30 | January 18, 2020 09:15 | 4h 45m | 399 | 1,876 |
| 4 | January 13, 2020 21:45 | January 14, 2020 02:45 | 5h | 392 | 510 |
| 5 | August 10, 2020 19:00 | August 11, 2020 00:00 | 5h | 391 | 648 |
| 6 | June 12, 2020 03:45 | June 12, 2020 06:15 | 2h 30m | 386 | 965 |
| 7 | January 11, 2020 03:15 | January 12, 2020 02:15 | 23h | 363 | 3,379 |
| 8 | September 8, 2020 05:00 | September 8, 2020 08:15 | 3h 15m | 308 | 493 |
| 9 | October 11, 2020 08:15 | October 11, 2020 10:30 | 2h 15m | 280 | 630 |
| 10 | July 15, 2020 09:45 | July 15, 2020 13:30 | 3h 45m | 249 | 747 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Van Buren County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 91% of Iowa's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/iowa/van-buren-county