Power Outages in Houghton County, MI
No live outage feed is available for Houghton County, MI yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.7 hours.
Houghton County, MI is served by local tracked utilities.
Houghton County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
Houghton County has been under 17 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Air Quality Alert on July 18, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×6
- Extreme Heat Warning ×4
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×4
- Heat Advisory ×3
Hardest-hit cities in Houghton County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Houghton County went about 5.7 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 18,348 customers.
Worst year here was 2025 (peak 18,348 customers out) · decade average 2.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 425 | 3,594 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 189 | 938 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 168 | 2,429 | 0.7 |
| 2018 | 298 | 1,197 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 371 | 6,880 | 2.3 |
| 2020 | 532 | 14,073 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 514 | 4,686 | 3.3 |
| 2022 | 403 | 5,370 | 3.6 |
| 2023 | 375 | 2,485 | 1.9 |
| 2024 | 449 | 1,465 | 1.7 |
| 2025 | 420 | 18,348 | 5.7 |
Relatively High winter weather exposure · 2.4 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Houghton County: FAQ
- How often does Houghton County, MI lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Houghton County, MI logged 420 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.7 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Houghton County, MI?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 18,348 customers without power, beginning November 3, 2025 and lasting about 11h 30m.
- Is there a power outage in Houghton County, MI right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Houghton County, MI. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Houghton County.
49905, 49913, 49916, 49917, 49921, 49922, 49930, 49931, 49934, 49942, 49945, 49952, 49955, 49958, 49961, 49963, 49965, 49967
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/26061 and /api/v1/counties/26061/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Michigan customers).