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2022 Buena Vista County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Buena Vista County, IA went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2695th 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 Buena Vista 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 | May 30, 2022 11:30 | May 30, 2022 18:45 | 7h 15m | 2,363 | 5,063 |
| 2 | March 23, 2022 20:00 | March 23, 2022 20:45 | 45m | 801 | 202 |
| 3 | July 5, 2022 22:45 | July 6, 2022 01:45 | 3h | 675 | 354 |
| 4 | June 2, 2022 17:45 | June 3, 2022 04:15 | 10h 30m | 663 | 559 |
| 5 | April 29, 2022 14:45 | April 29, 2022 21:30 | 6h 45m | 635 | 546 |
| 6 | November 25, 2022 11:00 | November 25, 2022 19:15 | 8h 15m | 513 | 965 |
| 7 | August 7, 2022 07:30 | August 7, 2022 09:15 | 1h 45m | 234 | 410 |
| 8 | April 14, 2022 20:00 | April 15, 2022 15:30 | 19h 30m | 164 | 249 |
| 9 | March 6, 2022 03:00 | March 6, 2022 08:30 | 5h 30m | 162 | 308 |
| 10 | February 22, 2022 00:30 | February 22, 2022 02:45 | 2h 15m | 160 | 232 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Buena Vista 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 |
| Iowa Lakes Electric Coop | 2022 | 71 min | 0.69 | 68 min | 0.67 |
| Interstate Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Raccoon Valley Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Alta - (IA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Marathon - (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 ÷ 11,607 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. Buena Vista County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buena Vista 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/buena-vista-county