Huron County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Huron County, Michigan had 58 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.32 times the US outage time per person and 2.36 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 5 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

99 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 22, 2021, reached 12,463 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 99.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Michigan counties

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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	504,568	96	7
2016	2,274	2	0
2017	433,866	37	7
2018	624,981	63	10
2019	210,520	49	5
2020	426,006	82	9
2021	1,154,384	48	9
2022	193,263	27	6
2023	56,520	18	5

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
Sep 22, 2021	99.2	12,463	649,246
May 4, 2018	54.0	10,432	404,851
Apr 6, 2017	85.5	8,455	281,162
Dec 11, 2021	57.5	5,964	178,693
Aug 3, 2015	14.8	10,953	156,498

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.