Ottawa County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ottawa County, Michigan had 21 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 0.37 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 72 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 7, 2017, reached 61,143 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 82.8 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	322,729	91	2
2016	98,739	46	0
2017	1,487,257	81	1
2018	248,283	99	0
2019	1,119,974	94	4
2020	727,324	97	3
2021	765,044	113	6
2022	566,657	118	3
2023	295,142	118	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
Jul 7, 2017	82.8	61,143	1,368,576
Jun 10, 2020	73.2	17,408	398,758
Jul 20, 2019	66.8	14,532	362,479
Feb 6, 2019	91.8	7,876	310,768
Aug 11, 2021	20.2	9,786	177,047

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.