Wayne County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Wayne County, Michigan had 52 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.34 times the US outage time per person and 1.48 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 18 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

367 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Febhardest months

August and February made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 22, 2023, reached 311,048 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 366.8 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	5,810,656	713	3
2016	386,896	49	0
2017	4,384,510	372	2
2018	14,902,888	680	8
2019	11,857,901	684	4
2020	10,276,092	614	6
2021	32,938,273	591	20
2022	10,787,308	736	4
2023	38,988,018	434	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
Feb 22, 2023	366.8	311,048	25,808,705
Aug 13, 2021	81.2	254,866	11,545,761
Jul 20, 2019	49.0	157,013	5,810,649
Jul 25, 2023	211.8	106,173	4,506,472
Aug 23, 2023	176.2	120,526	4,460,698

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.