Van Buren County, Iowa Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Van Buren County, Iowa had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.50 times the US outage time per person and 0.59 times the Iowa rate. It ranks 39 of 97 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Julhardest months

March and July made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 31, 2023, reached 1,593 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 16.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	7,689	11	0
2016	1,234	3	0
2017	6,220	9	0
2018	13,227	4	1
2019	5,132	10	0
2020	13,560	10	1
2021	3,936	6	0
2022	3,261	4	0
2023	25,894	7	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 31, 2023	16.2	1,593	18,759
Jul 19, 2018	18.0	1,115	10,736
Sep 5, 2023	4.2	1,638	3,844
Jun 27, 2020	7.8	672	3,656
Jan 11, 2020	11.0	363	3,272

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.