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2022 Buchanan County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Buchanan County, IA went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2575th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buchanan County, 2022
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 16, 2022 08:15 | November 16, 2022 12:15 | 4h | 518 | 2,072 |
| 2 | April 29, 2022 22:15 | May 2, 2022 18:15 | 2d 20h | 509 | 965 |
| 3 | August 16, 2022 10:45 | August 16, 2022 11:15 | 30m | 452 | 114 |
| 4 | January 21, 2022 06:30 | January 21, 2022 09:45 | 3h 15m | 388 | 1,261 |
| 5 | August 8, 2022 15:45 | August 8, 2022 18:00 | 2h 15m | 384 | 99 |
| 6 | April 28, 2022 14:15 | April 28, 2022 15:30 | 1h 15m | 337 | 421 |
| 7 | June 2, 2022 18:30 | June 2, 2022 19:30 | 1h | 318 | 98 |
| 8 | March 6, 2022 01:30 | March 7, 2022 15:15 | 1d 13h | 316 | 216 |
| 9 | July 5, 2022 14:45 | July 7, 2022 15:15 | 2d | 309 | 1,519 |
| 10 | May 3, 2022 18:30 | May 3, 2022 21:45 | 3h 15m | 293 | 235 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 19 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 Buchanan County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MidAmerican Energy Co | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.03 | 87 min | 0.88 |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2022 | 57 min | 0.90 | 57 min | 0.90 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2022 | 66 min | 0.96 | 66 min | 0.96 |
| City of Independence - (IA) | 2022 | 10 min | 0.17 | 10 min | 0.17 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairbank - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,254 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. Buchanan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buchanan County, IA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/iowa/buchanan-county