Leelanau County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Leelanau County, Michigan had 40 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.93 times the US outage time per person and 1.75 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 13 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Dechardest months

August and December made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 8,475 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.2 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	624,111	28	5
2016	8,755	6	1
2017	79,847	26	4
2018	86,352	16	3
2019	89,049	29	4
2020	264,139	42	6
2021	507,722	44	8
2022	268,951	40	8
2023	51,636	35	1

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	84.2	8,475	364,601
Aug 2, 2015	49.5	8,070	292,150
Nov 1, 2020	39.8	6,411	141,078
Aug 5, 2015	58.0	5,361	135,745
Dec 24, 2015	69.0	2,160	77,556

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.