Alcona County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Alcona County, Michigan had 69 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 12.25 times the US outage time per person and 5.44 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 1 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

7.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

103 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Novhardest months

December and November made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 8,243 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	570,141	42	7
2016	46,003	28	1
2017	205,937	35	9
2018	88,848	40	5
2019	141,656	40	11
2020	425,138	38	11
2021	721,647	45	14
2022	563,506	50	9
2023	101,598	42	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	78.5	8,243	447,180
Dec 24, 2015	102.8	5,149	294,222
Nov 6, 2022	65.2	7,612	232,634
Dec 12, 2020	65.5	6,451	214,498
Nov 5, 2022	19.8	8,035	154,397

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.