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2021 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.7 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1600th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Van Buren County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 2, 2021 20:15 | August 2, 2021 22:15 | 2h | 733 | 1,351 |
| 2 | June 6, 2021 14:00 | June 6, 2021 16:15 | 2h 15m | 394 | 782 |
| 3 | August 12, 2021 13:00 | August 12, 2021 17:30 | 4h 30m | 356 | 434 |
| 4 | August 2, 2021 23:00 | August 3, 2021 02:15 | 3h 15m | 248 | 278 |
| 5 | December 16, 2021 02:00 | December 16, 2021 22:15 | 20h 15m | 248 | 2,375 |
| 6 | September 22, 2021 23:00 | September 23, 2021 00:45 | 1h 45m | 220 | 385 |
| 7 | June 12, 2021 12:15 | June 12, 2021 13:30 | 1h 15m | 176 | 220 |
| 8 | July 9, 2021 02:45 | July 9, 2021 06:45 | 4h | 176 | 230 |
| 9 | May 15, 2021 12:15 | May 15, 2021 18:00 | 5h 45m | 175 | 808 |
| 10 | October 11, 2021 04:30 | October 11, 2021 06:00 | 1h 30m | 152 | 228 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 13 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 2021, 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/iowa/van-buren-county