Alpena County, Michigan Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

Alpena County, Michigan had 6 major outages from 2020 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.19 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 81 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 4 years of records.

1.5major outages per year

3 of 4years with a major outage

60 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Novhardest months

December and November made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 1,345 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 59.5 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
2020	19,366	8	1
2021	63,564	18	2
2022	36,500	7	3
2023	0	0	0

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
Dec 16, 2021	59.5	1,345	43,041
Nov 16, 2022	37.2	1,465	20,658
Dec 12, 2020	21.0	2,060	14,271
Nov 5, 2022	23.5	697	9,768
Aug 11, 2021	6.0	894	3,934

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.