Roscommon County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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Roscommon County, Michigan had 50 major outages from 2015 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 9 years of records.

5.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

91 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 14,563 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 67.5 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	708,134	42	5
2016	88,578	29	2
2017	417,044	44	8
2018	559,378	43	3
2019	211,771	42	6
2020	452,076	59	11
2021	673,076	54	6
2022	491,230	49	7
2023	126,692	43	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 16, 2021	67.5	14,563	458,362
Aug 29, 2018	89.0	12,056	432,016
Dec 24, 2015	91.0	9,723	358,708
Aug 2, 2015	44.0	6,020	200,752
Dec 12, 2020	48.5	8,114	137,196

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

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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.
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