Montcalm County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Montcalm County, Michigan had 52 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.82 times the US outage time per person and 1.25 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 25 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Aughardest months

February and August made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 7, 2019, reached 15,042 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 100.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	287,656	51	2
2016	154,630	43	3
2017	169,721	45	3
2018	342,465	56	9
2019	1,228,409	81	9
2020	292,621	69	5
2021	667,942	60	8
2022	278,923	67	6
2023	884,562	50	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 7, 2019	100.2	15,042	767,979
Feb 27, 2023	80.2	15,525	729,978
Jul 20, 2019	66.8	8,323	229,540
Dec 11, 2021	60.2	9,757	193,226
Dec 24, 2015	83.8	4,767	173,201

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.