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2024 Buchanan County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Buchanan County, IA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 84th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2584th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buchanan County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 15, 2024 22:15 | July 16, 2024 18:45 | 20h 30m | 1,511 | 944 |
| 2 | December 14, 2024 23:15 | December 15, 2024 15:15 | 16h | 720 | 2,549 |
| 3 | April 5, 2024 03:30 | April 5, 2024 04:45 | 1h 15m | 551 | 675 |
| 4 | April 5, 2024 12:45 | April 5, 2024 13:00 | 15m | 551 | 138 |
| 5 | April 7, 2024 14:30 | April 7, 2024 17:30 | 3h | 207 | 149 |
| 6 | March 30, 2024 06:15 | April 1, 2024 12:15 | 2d 6h | 203 | 168 |
| 7 | June 2, 2024 03:30 | June 3, 2024 16:30 | 1d 13h | 200 | 5,047 |
| 8 | September 18, 2024 14:15 | September 18, 2024 19:00 | 4h 45m | 162 | 128 |
| 9 | December 9, 2024 13:15 | December 9, 2024 13:30 | 15m | 158 | 40 |
| 10 | November 4, 2024 20:45 | November 4, 2024 21:45 | 1h | 134 | 134 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 17 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 Buchanan County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | 1.42 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop | 2024 | 38 min | 0.53 | 38 min | 0.53 |
| Maquoketa Valley Rrl Elec Coop | 2024 | 2.2 hrs | 1.20 | 71 min | 0.82 |
| City of Independence - (IA) | 2024 | 11 min | 0.41 | 11 min | 0.41 |
| 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 n/a of Iowa's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/iowa/buchanan-county