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2020 Van Buren County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Van Buren County, MI went without power for an average of 33.4 hours, a total of 632K customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 244th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 01:15 | June 30, 2020 06:00 | 3d 4h | 11,221 | 285K |
| 2 | August 10, 2020 08:15 | August 13, 2020 21:00 | 3d 12h | 5,025 | 99K |
| 3 | November 15, 2020 04:00 | November 18, 2020 02:45 | 2d 22h | 3,521 | 38K |
| 4 | February 22, 2020 14:00 | February 22, 2020 23:15 | 9h 15m | 3,425 | 28K |
| 5 | June 9, 2020 16:00 | June 14, 2020 01:00 | 4d 9h | 2,334 | 69K |
| 6 | November 10, 2020 18:30 | November 12, 2020 00:00 | 1d 5h | 1,600 | 7,734 |
| 7 | November 21, 2020 11:45 | November 22, 2020 00:15 | 12h 30m | 1,286 | 7,809 |
| 8 | February 1, 2020 22:15 | February 2, 2020 03:30 | 5h 15m | 1,229 | 335 |
| 9 | July 19, 2020 12:30 | July 20, 2020 01:45 | 13h 15m | 1,059 | 4,236 |
| 10 | July 27, 2020 00:30 | July 27, 2020 19:15 | 18h 45m | 982 | 843 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 77 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2020 | 8.5 hrs | 1.35 | 3.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.27 | 3.3 hrs | 1.01 |
| 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 95% of Michigan's customers in 2020; 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, 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/michigan/van-buren-county