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Who serves Van Buren County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Indiana Michigan Power, Consumers Energy and Midwest Energy & Communications, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of South Haven and Village of Paw Paw also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Van Buren County, MI
Last significant outage: Sep 25, 2026 — peaked at 202 customers, restored in ~9.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 17 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Van Buren County, MI
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
594 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
5 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
4.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~19,203 customers out in May 2025, restored after about 3.2 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Van Buren County include South Haven, Paw Paw, Mattawan, Bangor, Lawton, Decatur, Lawrence and Gobles. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
