Manistee County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Manistee County, Michigan had 26 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.60 times the US outage time per person and 0.71 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 51 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

78 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 5,707 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 77.5 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
2015	131,021	31	3
2016	22,998	18	0
2017	41,453	21	3
2018	60,697	17	1
2019	132,926	27	3
2020	114,593	40	5
2021	232,419	32	6
2022	118,266	36	4
2023	43,750	27	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
Dec 16, 2021	77.5	5,707	168,193
Dec 1, 2019	35.2	3,391	66,810
Dec 24, 2015	51.8	1,633	54,720
Nov 5, 2022	20.2	2,414	38,649
Jun 10, 2020	42.2	2,231	38,533

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.