Alger County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.10 times the US outage time per person and 0.49 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 63 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

53 hrslongest major outage

May, Novhardest months

May and November made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 2, 2023, reached 2,702 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.5 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	9,712	14	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	3,322	4	0
2018	11,364	10	2
2019	23,885	14	1
2020	56,299	19	3
2021	11,831	14	0
2022	24,686	17	2
2023	68,558	10	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
May 2, 2023	26.5	2,702	36,411
Jun 10, 2020	9.0	3,181	22,502
May 1, 2023	15.0	1,491	18,579
Nov 27, 2019	53.2	296	15,278
Oct 18, 2022	12.0	3,268	11,571

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.