Isabella County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.75 times the US outage time per person and 0.33 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 76 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

56 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Dechardest months

August and December made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 11, 2021, reached 6,851 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 19.0 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	96,775	20	3
2016	26,414	9	2
2017	78,562	27	5
2018	91,875	30	2
2019	267,640	45	6
2020	64,538	42	2
2021	310,007	38	6
2022	61,426	25	1
2023	72,959	31	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
Aug 11, 2021	19.0	6,851	78,096
Jul 20, 2019	31.2	7,611	76,293
Aug 24, 2021	26.8	4,603	69,386
Dec 1, 2019	38.2	2,613	50,928
Dec 24, 2015	56.0	1,195	48,712

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.