Cheboygan County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cheboygan County, Michigan had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.49 times the US outage time per person and 1.11 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 29 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Julhardest months

December and July made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 10,633 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.5 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	162,872	29	4
2016	28,560	17	1
2017	108,803	29	4
2018	29,508	21	1
2019	58,995	24	2
2020	342,477	49	6
2021	413,539	41	2
2022	240,988	45	7
2023	38,451	33	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
Dec 16, 2021	84.5	10,633	336,880
Jul 18, 2020	53.2	11,121	251,566
Nov 5, 2022	45.8	6,000	109,908
Dec 24, 2015	82.0	2,515	98,098
Jun 16, 2022	30.5	5,269	46,230

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.