Dickinson County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dickinson County, Michigan had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.93 times the US outage time per person and 0.41 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 67 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

58 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Junhardest months

March and June made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 23, 2022, reached 8,521 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.8 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	6,854	8	0
2016	3,726	7	0
2017	82,128	12	2
2018	3,803	2	1
2019	76,363	9	1
2020	35,416	11	1
2021	88,278	19	5
2022	173,593	24	3
2023	64,629	12	3

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 23, 2022	36.8	8,521	103,453
Jun 11, 2017	39.0	4,290	70,848
Nov 27, 2019	57.8	4,461	63,056
May 9, 2022	23.0	2,322	29,483
Jul 27, 2021	31.0	1,979	28,176

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.