Gladwin County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gladwin County, Michigan had 47 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.18 times the US outage time per person and 1.85 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 12 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

86 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Dechardest months

August and December made up 55% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2018, reached 8,161 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Michigan counties

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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	364,150	27	4
2016	85,333	26	2
2017	141,608	38	6
2018	353,370	31	6
2019	126,900	43	5
2020	293,277	41	10
2021	630,873	55	9
2022	293,602	59	4
2023	101,889	32	1

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 29, 2018	68.5	8,161	290,858
Dec 24, 2015	86.2	5,515	238,798
May 19, 2020	46.8	3,055	126,552
Aug 11, 2021	18.0	7,099	115,443
Dec 16, 2021	52.8	3,318	110,614

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.