Kent County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kent County, Michigan had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.68 times the US outage time per person and 0.74 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 50 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

115 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 6, 2019, reached 96,039 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 115.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	1,361,856	212	3
2016	574,434	147	3
2017	2,781,310	203	2
2018	1,456,181	239	6
2019	8,398,524	252	5
2020	1,980,603	272	3
2021	2,699,285	266	4
2022	1,960,789	285	6
2023	3,646,119	243	7

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
Feb 6, 2019	115.2	96,039	4,888,282
Aug 25, 2023	108.8	62,764	2,358,180
Jul 20, 2019	68.0	58,014	2,049,922
Jul 7, 2017	78.5	110,606	1,943,136
Aug 11, 2021	19.8	49,089	840,974

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.