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2023 Van Buren County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Van Buren County, MI went without power for an average of 38.0 hours, a total of 719K customer-hours (Michigan average 26.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 164th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 | February 22, 2023 19:45 | February 27, 2023 23:45 | 5d 4h | 13,195 | 581K |
| 2 | December 9, 2023 13:15 | December 10, 2023 05:15 | 16h | 4,355 | 15K |
| 3 | September 26, 2023 20:30 | September 27, 2023 02:15 | 5h 45m | 1,716 | 1,847 |
| 4 | May 7, 2023 00:45 | May 7, 2023 09:45 | 9h | 1,427 | 5,717 |
| 5 | January 20, 2023 07:45 | January 20, 2023 10:30 | 2h 45m | 1,392 | 573 |
| 6 | June 6, 2023 01:15 | June 6, 2023 08:45 | 7h 30m | 1,340 | 6,111 |
| 7 | April 5, 2023 06:15 | April 6, 2023 02:30 | 20h 15m | 1,281 | 11K |
| 8 | April 19, 2023 21:30 | April 20, 2023 04:00 | 6h 30m | 1,239 | 1,513 |
| 9 | July 26, 2023 15:30 | July 27, 2023 17:45 | 1d 2h | 1,151 | 5,785 |
| 10 | July 12, 2023 22:15 | July 13, 2023 17:00 | 18h 45m | 1,109 | 3,325 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 95 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2023 | 15.2 hrs | 1.37 | 2.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.10 | 2.6 hrs | 0.97 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2023 | 10.2 hrs | 1.50 | 3.3 hrs | 1.15 |
| 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 n/a of Michigan's customers in 2023; 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, 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/michigan/van-buren-county