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2025 Van Buren County, IA Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Van Buren County, IA went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Iowa average 2.9 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 99 Iowa counties and 1732nd 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 Van Buren 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 | March 15, 2025 00:15 | March 15, 2025 06:45 | 6h 30m | 1,713 | 1,908 |
| 2 | September 11, 2025 10:00 | September 11, 2025 12:30 | 2h 30m | 1,593 | 1,322 |
| 3 | October 11, 2025 20:30 | October 11, 2025 23:00 | 2h 30m | 1,075 | 2,687 |
| 4 | December 4, 2025 10:45 | December 4, 2025 14:15 | 3h 30m | 599 | 576 |
| 5 | March 22, 2025 01:00 | March 22, 2025 03:00 | 2h | 401 | 794 |
| 6 | March 20, 2025 14:15 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 6h 15m | 285 | 606 |
| 7 | March 19, 2025 19:30 | March 19, 2025 21:00 | 1h 30m | 217 | 326 |
| 8 | April 17, 2025 14:30 | April 17, 2025 19:15 | 4h 45m | 208 | 248 |
| 9 | July 23, 2025 15:00 | July 23, 2025 16:30 | 1h 30m | 180 | 113 |
| 10 | April 15, 2025 01:00 | April 15, 2025 02:00 | 1h | 162 | 162 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 14 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/van-buren-county