Livingston County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Livingston County, Michigan had 55 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.85 times the US outage time per person and 1.26 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 24 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

169 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 24, 2023, reached 29,698 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 160.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	278,332	139	2
2016	216,880	33	2
2017	341,747	99	2
2018	401,566	134	6
2019	2,117,538	158	9
2020	572,135	169	8
2021	3,065,513	173	12
2022	1,679,745	141	8
2023	3,673,124	84	6

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 24, 2023	160.8	29,698	1,876,008
Aug 12, 2021	101.8	38,504	1,673,277
Jul 19, 2019	74.2	26,806	1,362,350
Feb 22, 2023	169.2	21,985	1,258,247
Nov 5, 2022	52.2	16,605	426,021

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.