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2021 Van Buren County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Van Buren County, MI went without power for an average of 39.3 hours, a total of 743K customer-hours (Michigan average 26.6 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 83 Michigan counties and 223rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 10, 2021 03:30 | August 15, 2021 23:45 | 5d 20h | 10,179 | 181K |
| 2 | June 20, 2021 23:30 | June 23, 2021 02:15 | 2d 2h | 7,917 | 90K |
| 3 | December 11, 2021 12:15 | December 13, 2021 21:30 | 2d 9h | 5,826 | 56K |
| 4 | June 5, 2021 16:45 | June 6, 2021 16:45 | 1d | 4,184 | 38K |
| 5 | April 8, 2021 20:00 | April 9, 2021 05:00 | 9h | 3,770 | 16K |
| 6 | September 7, 2021 11:15 | September 10, 2021 00:15 | 2d 13h | 3,644 | 41K |
| 7 | November 13, 2021 05:15 | November 15, 2021 15:30 | 2d 10h | 3,502 | 48K |
| 8 | October 11, 2021 23:30 | October 13, 2021 08:15 | 1d 8h | 2,722 | 39K |
| 9 | April 10, 2021 19:30 | April 11, 2021 14:45 | 19h 15m | 2,534 | 19K |
| 10 | April 5, 2021 23:30 | April 6, 2021 18:45 | 19h 15m | 2,402 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 106 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2021 | 15.2 hrs | 1.60 | 3.8 hrs | 1.05 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2021 | 11.2 hrs | 1.57 | 3.8 hrs | 1.09 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/michigan/van-buren-county