Chippewa County, Michigan Power Outages, 2019 to 2023

Chippewa County, Michigan had 20 major outages from 2019 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.37 times the US outage time per person and 1.05 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 33 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 5 years of records.

4.0major outages per year

5 of 5years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Jan, Dechardest months

January and December made up 67% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jan 1, 2020, reached 9,035 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 62.5 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
2019	77,247	3	1
2020	462,868	64	5
2021	265,987	55	5
2022	143,656	74	5
2023	102,091	47	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
Jan 1, 2020	62.5	9,035	322,045
Dec 16, 2021	65.5	5,741	146,248
Jan 3, 2020	55.0	2,724	57,600
Dec 30, 2019	5.8	10,448	50,152
Dec 30, 2019	8.2	5,730	25,882

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.