Crawford County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Crawford County, Michigan had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.51 times the US outage time per person and 2.00 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 9 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

86 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 2, 2015, reached 5,683 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 48.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	444,802	23	5
2016	3,977	7	0
2017	138,795	32	7
2018	25,189	25	2
2019	83,588	28	5
2020	88,274	33	2
2021	263,173	43	8
2022	190,228	34	4
2023	111,445	38	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
Aug 2, 2015	48.8	5,683	195,761
Dec 24, 2015	86.2	3,420	157,219
Dec 16, 2021	81.2	5,233	148,745
Jun 3, 2023	21.2	3,272	60,519
Nov 5, 2022	44.2	2,889	55,766

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.