Montmorency County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Montmorency County, Michigan had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.17 times the US outage time per person and 0.96 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 37 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Novhardest months

December and November made up 48% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 3,568 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.5 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	13,162	5	3
2016	1,848	3	0
2017	1,609	1	0
2018	5,488	4	0
2019	9,366	9	0
2020	79,260	33	5
2021	213,154	30	4
2022	130,028	26	4
2023	14,620	13	0

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
Dec 16, 2021	71.5	3,568	120,362
Jun 16, 2022	47.5	2,724	48,783
Nov 5, 2022	41.2	2,541	47,752
Aug 11, 2021	40.2	3,842	44,866
Jul 18, 2020	40.8	816	16,712

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.