Lake County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lake County, Michigan had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.32 times the US outage time per person and 1.92 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 11 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

87 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Dechardest months

August and December made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 7, 2021, reached 6,282 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.2 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	132,917	32	1
2016	16,861	22	0
2017	24,757	21	0
2018	176,616	38	2
2019	195,771	40	4
2020	77,674	38	3
2021	478,672	41	8
2022	78,838	33	1
2023	55,544	39	0

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
Sep 7, 2021	78.2	6,282	153,509
Aug 28, 2018	87.0	2,553	145,331
Aug 11, 2021	20.2	6,444	103,742
Dec 1, 2019	55.5	3,979	101,599
Dec 24, 2015	59.0	5,604	99,142

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.