Ingham County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ingham County, Michigan had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.91 times the US outage time per person and 0.41 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 68 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

153 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 24, 2023, reached 53,778 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 152.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	115,404	89	0
2016	276,501	32	3
2017	250,994	45	3
2018	187,206	40	2
2019	254,172	56	1
2020	321,638	101	3
2021	541,006	112	6
2022	737,486	141	5
2023	3,154,251	113	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
Aug 24, 2023	152.8	53,778	2,826,966
Aug 30, 2022	63.2	10,615	221,469
Feb 23, 2023	90.5	3,876	132,490
Jul 20, 2019	69.2	3,618	127,518
Nov 5, 2022	63.8	4,887	107,070

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.