Menominee County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Menominee County, Michigan had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 0.37 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 72 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Junhardest months

December and June made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 11, 2021, reached 3,983 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.8 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	19,400	15	0
2016	2,342	5	0
2017	70,358	21	1
2018	21,691	15	0
2019	43,815	14	1
2020	24,774	9	0
2021	123,342	22	4
2022	86,579	18	2
2023	34,089	16	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
Dec 11, 2021	35.8	3,983	68,201
Jun 16, 2022	51.8	2,199	44,280
Jun 11, 2017	31.5	3,792	39,610
Jul 20, 2019	13.5	2,531	28,752
Dec 16, 2021	29.2	1,808	20,726

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.