Eaton County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.55 times the US outage time per person and 0.69 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 53 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

128 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 61% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 25, 2023, reached 21,375 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 128.0 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	126,870	63	2
2016	62,530	10	1
2017	456,014	47	4
2018	154,062	39	1
2019	373,122	48	4
2020	474,933	43	2
2021	136,080	49	3
2022	234,195	50	2
2023	1,720,910	44	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
Aug 25, 2023	128.0	21,375	1,533,501
Jun 10, 2020	94.2	7,023	338,472
Jul 7, 2017	60.2	17,647	204,968
Jul 20, 2019	65.2	4,885	195,302
Feb 23, 2023	51.2	4,111	100,304

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.