Osceola County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Osceola County, Michigan had 34 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.89 times the US outage time per person and 1.28 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 23 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

84 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 6,719 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 58.2 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	244,548	38	4
2016	77,008	12	1
2017	30,555	27	2
2018	157,116	22	2
2019	238,738	40	6
2020	111,320	30	6
2021	530,250	34	8
2022	70,222	38	4
2023	31,613	27	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
Dec 16, 2021	58.2	6,719	172,820
Sep 7, 2021	54.5	9,451	144,634
Dec 24, 2015	83.5	6,899	144,362
Aug 29, 2018	74.8	3,288	131,414
Jul 20, 2019	67.2	2,439	95,948

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.