Branch County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Branch County, Michigan had 40 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.20 times the US outage time per person and 1.42 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 19 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

134 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 12, 2021, reached 12,027 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 134.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	70,846	27	2
2016	29,598	16	2
2017	147,954	15	3
2018	87,215	31	5
2019	232,707	44	6
2020	583,911	32	6
2021	1,198,265	30	6
2022	167,467	34	4
2023	736,466	25	6

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
Aug 12, 2021	134.0	12,027	838,733
Feb 23, 2023	118.0	6,702	507,229
Jun 10, 2020	130.8	6,767	490,357
Aug 6, 2021	54.0	4,716	151,098
Oct 8, 2017	26.0	4,737	92,330

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.