Oscoda County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oscoda County, Michigan had 42 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.65 times the US outage time per person and 2.95 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 3 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

87 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 4,438 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 84.2 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	320,282	48	10
2016	12,477	7	1
2017	181,662	24	5
2018	30,340	15	1
2019	93,478	21	5
2020	165,363	41	6
2021	279,601	26	8
2022	119,424	22	4
2023	56,191	23	2

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	84.2	4,438	169,941
Dec 24, 2015	87.0	2,730	157,857
Jun 13, 2017	42.5	3,664	81,488
Aug 2, 2015	47.8	2,038	74,184
Dec 12, 2020	32.8	2,520	56,383

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.