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2023 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 895th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Van Buren County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 5, 2023 14:30 | September 5, 2023 19:30 | 5h | 1,638 | 3,845 |
| 2 | March 31, 2023 22:00 | April 1, 2023 19:45 | 21h 45m | 1,593 | 19K |
| 3 | April 14, 2023 18:15 | April 14, 2023 19:45 | 1h 30m | 388 | 582 |
| 4 | March 17, 2023 04:45 | March 17, 2023 06:45 | 2h | 385 | 770 |
| 5 | June 28, 2023 14:30 | June 28, 2023 14:45 | 15m | 383 | 96 |
| 6 | November 21, 2023 20:15 | November 22, 2023 01:15 | 5h | 282 | 1,275 |
| 7 | June 29, 2023 15:45 | June 29, 2023 22:30 | 6h 45m | 260 | 668 |
| 8 | April 2, 2023 19:00 | April 2, 2023 22:15 | 3h 15m | 181 | 469 |
| 9 | April 20, 2023 22:45 | April 21, 2023 02:00 | 3h 15m | 181 | 587 |
| 10 | May 22, 2023 18:45 | May 22, 2023 20:30 | 1h 45m | 180 | 196 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2023, 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 n/a of Iowa's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/iowa/van-buren-county