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2024 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Iowa average 3.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1365th 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 Van Buren 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 | May 23, 2024 02:15 | May 23, 2024 04:00 | 1h 45m | 1,641 | 2,374 |
| 2 | July 28, 2024 21:30 | July 29, 2024 13:00 | 15h 30m | 1,617 | 4,650 |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 04:30 | January 9, 2024 10:45 | 6h 15m | 1,079 | 3,411 |
| 4 | April 16, 2024 21:45 | April 17, 2024 01:00 | 3h 15m | 602 | 582 |
| 5 | October 31, 2024 05:15 | October 31, 2024 12:30 | 7h 15m | 279 | 2,021 |
| 6 | January 9, 2024 16:45 | January 10, 2024 20:15 | 1d 3h | 206 | 1,633 |
| 7 | April 12, 2024 19:15 | April 12, 2024 21:15 | 2h | 158 | 204 |
| 8 | August 27, 2024 23:45 | August 28, 2024 10:15 | 10h 30m | 110 | 510 |
| 9 | May 26, 2024 12:45 | May 26, 2024 16:15 | 3h 30m | 105 | 226 |
| 10 | February 5, 2024 05:30 | February 5, 2024 07:45 | 2h 15m | 100 | 207 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2024; 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, 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/van-buren-county