Muskegon County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Muskegon County, Michigan had 32 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.59 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 58 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Febhardest months

October and February made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 31, 2023, reached 34,979 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 56.8 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	304,802	79	3
2016	152,668	38	1
2017	375,357	74	2
2018	311,078	69	2
2019	1,428,428	103	10
2020	413,624	107	3
2021	771,319	97	5
2022	237,943	83	3
2023	1,206,479	104	3

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
Oct 31, 2023	56.8	34,979	968,570
Feb 6, 2019	91.8	16,114	653,030
Dec 16, 2021	69.5	11,093	222,837
Jul 20, 2019	65.5	6,259	185,436
Jul 7, 2017	53.8	14,569	172,876

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.