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2022 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 7,638 customer-hours (Iowa average 1.6 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2135th 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 Van Buren 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 27, 2022 04:15 | May 27, 2022 08:15 | 4h | 384 | 1,536 |
| 2 | April 14, 2022 21:45 | April 14, 2022 23:00 | 1h 15m | 321 | 243 |
| 3 | November 11, 2022 06:15 | November 11, 2022 12:00 | 5h 45m | 281 | 1,562 |
| 4 | January 9, 2022 13:00 | January 9, 2022 13:45 | 45m | 177 | 133 |
| 5 | September 16, 2022 04:15 | September 16, 2022 06:30 | 2h 15m | 177 | 398 |
| 6 | April 11, 2022 17:15 | April 11, 2022 20:15 | 3h | 167 | 262 |
| 7 | December 6, 2022 18:45 | December 6, 2022 20:00 | 1h 15m | 157 | 128 |
| 8 | April 11, 2022 08:00 | April 11, 2022 11:30 | 3h 30m | 154 | 516 |
| 9 | April 6, 2022 00:45 | April 6, 2022 02:30 | 1h 45m | 94 | 151 |
| 10 | October 23, 2022 19:15 | October 23, 2022 20:30 | 1h 15m | 84 | 66 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2022; 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, 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/van-buren-county