Midland County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Midland County, Michigan had 57 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.85 times the US outage time per person and 0.82 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 47 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

97 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 1, 2019, reached 13,745 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.0 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	186,090	55	2
2016	48,949	19	1
2017	231,800	58	5
2018	308,215	48	9
2019	595,450	64	6
2020	595,520	91	13
2021	823,806	70	10
2022	334,190	60	7
2023	295,406	60	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
Dec 1, 2019	68.0	13,745	418,757
May 19, 2020	96.8	5,966	271,974
Dec 11, 2021	75.5	6,848	245,785
Aug 24, 2021	45.5	6,986	157,846
Dec 24, 2015	60.8	4,035	125,386

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.