Baraga County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Baraga County, Michigan had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.77 times the US outage time per person and 0.34 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 75 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

43 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 35% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 2, 2023, reached 748 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 43.2 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	5,289	9	0
2016	14,238	11	1
2017	24,684	15	2
2018	9,450	13	0
2019	13,996	15	1
2020	25,654	11	2
2021	13,946	11	0
2022	8,330	6	0
2023	23,332	6	1

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	43.2	748	18,827
Jul 19, 2020	10.2	1,689	11,172
Mar 7, 2017	17.0	1,005	8,360
Sep 26, 2020	12.2	872	8,007
Nov 2, 2021	7.8	951	4,908

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.