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2025 Buchanan County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Buchanan County, IA went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.9 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 2435th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with IA, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Iowa customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buchanan County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 30, 2025 07:15 | November 30, 2025 09:45 | 2h 30m | 1,481 | 3,657 |
| 2 | November 11, 2025 18:30 | November 11, 2025 20:45 | 2h 15m | 1,067 | 537 |
| 3 | July 29, 2025 07:15 | July 29, 2025 17:45 | 10h 30m | 947 | 4,409 |
| 4 | July 30, 2025 07:15 | July 30, 2025 22:15 | 15h | 410 | 2,274 |
| 5 | June 19, 2025 05:30 | June 19, 2025 05:45 | 15m | 319 | 80 |
| 6 | September 25, 2025 13:15 | September 25, 2025 18:45 | 5h 30m | 319 | 103 |
| 7 | May 29, 2025 14:00 | May 29, 2025 17:00 | 3h | 318 | 398 |
| 8 | July 17, 2025 18:30 | July 17, 2025 20:30 | 2h | 318 | 478 |
| 9 | September 22, 2025 14:30 | September 22, 2025 15:15 | 45m | 318 | 239 |
| 10 | October 20, 2025 15:45 | October 20, 2025 17:45 | 2h | 318 | 636 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 17 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 Buchanan County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/iowa/buchanan-county