Van Buren County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Van Buren County, Michigan had 58 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.23 times the US outage time per person and 0.99 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 36 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

121 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 22, 2023, reached 13,195 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 120.8 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	237,443	69	5
2016	139,553	45	5
2017	216,812	57	5
2018	229,396	76	6
2019	320,925	63	10
2020	574,330	59	5
2021	678,193	84	14
2022	668,456	97	6
2023	666,492	58	2

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
Feb 22, 2023	120.8	13,195	580,619
Jun 27, 2020	65.2	11,221	283,698
Jun 13, 2022	68.8	8,987	198,242
Aug 11, 2021	65.0	10,179	173,895
Aug 3, 2022	41.2	6,608	115,557

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.