Gogebic County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gogebic County, Michigan had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.81 times the US outage time per person and 0.80 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 49 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

41 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aprhardest months

July and April made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 27, 2021, reached 5,840 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 41.0 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	6,272	8	0
2016	75,432	15	2
2017	59,602	22	3
2018	38,956	12	2
2019	24,366	15	1
2020	39,349	14	2
2021	161,542	15	4
2022	87,238	22	4
2023	73,658	20	3

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 27, 2021	41.0	5,840	88,913
Jul 21, 2016	31.2	2,096	34,758
May 31, 2022	16.8	5,795	27,394
Jun 17, 2018	9.8	3,107	20,844
Jul 28, 2023	25.8	3,643	19,778

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.