Barry County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.38 times the US outage time per person and 1.06 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 31 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

90 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 40% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 20, 2019, reached 7,632 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 66.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	86,299	62	2
2016	169,053	32	3
2017	926,103	53	8
2018	118,688	45	4
2019	606,870	59	7
2020	212,779	68	7
2021	354,273	65	5
2022	603,614	60	10
2023	278,630	59	4

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
Jul 20, 2019	66.0	7,632	292,194
Jul 7, 2017	59.0	21,659	255,349
Apr 6, 2017	37.8	11,208	185,678
Mar 9, 2017	21.0	9,599	181,344
Mar 10, 2017	34.5	8,931	162,890

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.