St. Joseph County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

St. Joseph County, Michigan had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.87 times the US outage time per person and 0.83 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 46 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

186 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 11, 2021, reached 13,700 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 186.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	74,973	40	1
2016	70,447	27	1
2017	96,830	35	2
2018	112,270	55	3
2019	194,727	73	3
2020	198,755	40	4
2021	1,246,062	64	9
2022	318,223	62	7
2023	208,990	51	5

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
Aug 11, 2021	186.2	13,700	1,018,045
Jun 14, 2022	73.0	5,776	175,919
Jun 10, 2020	96.2	1,892	88,793
Mar 3, 2023	26.0	4,434	60,120
May 23, 2019	26.5	3,823	51,476

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.