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2024 Van Buren County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Van Buren County, MI went without power for an average of 19.5 hours, a total of 368K customer-hours (Michigan average 8.5 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 517th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 | June 25, 2024 11:30 | June 27, 2024 19:45 | 2d 8h | 4,511 | 43K |
| 2 | June 17, 2024 00:00 | June 19, 2024 08:45 | 2d 8h | 4,420 | 84K |
| 3 | April 11, 2024 15:30 | April 12, 2024 03:30 | 12h | 2,561 | 15K |
| 4 | October 20, 2024 03:45 | October 20, 2024 11:15 | 7h 30m | 2,450 | 14K |
| 5 | September 13, 2024 11:30 | September 13, 2024 22:15 | 10h 45m | 2,299 | 655 |
| 6 | August 6, 2024 11:45 | August 8, 2024 00:15 | 1d 12h | 2,000 | 11K |
| 7 | April 12, 2024 17:45 | April 14, 2024 02:45 | 1d 9h | 1,959 | 18K |
| 8 | July 8, 2024 02:15 | July 8, 2024 08:15 | 6h | 1,766 | 6,206 |
| 9 | July 15, 2024 02:45 | July 17, 2024 05:30 | 2d 2h | 1,601 | 8,580 |
| 10 | October 13, 2024 19:00 | October 14, 2024 20:45 | 1d 1h | 1,587 | 1,302 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 108 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2024 | 8.4 hrs | 1.32 | 2.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2024 | 4.3 hrs | 1.25 | 2.5 hrs | 1.08 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2024 | 7.2 hrs | 1.60 | 4.6 hrs | 1.30 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/michigan/van-buren-county