Power Outages in Iron County, MI
No live outage feed is available for Iron County, MI yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 23.4 hours.
Iron County, MI is served by local tracked utilities.
Iron 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
Iron County has been under 14 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Air Quality Alert on July 18, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×6
- Extreme Heat Warning ×4
- Heat Advisory ×3
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Iron County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Iron County went about 23.4 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 4,599 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 3,571 customers out) · decade average 9.5 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 134 | 1,891 | 2.4 |
| 2016 | 188 | 1,470 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 199 | 1,520 | 9.3 |
| 2018 | 62 | 549 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 93 | 4,257 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | 209 | 876 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 192 | 4,599 | 22.6 |
| 2022 | 206 | 3,571 | 23.6 |
| 2023 | 181 | 1,403 | 8.4 |
| 2024 | 211 | 1,619 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 232 | 2,508 | 23.4 |
Relatively Low high winds exposure · 9.5 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Iron County: FAQ
- How often does Iron County, MI lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Iron County, MI logged 232 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 23.4 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Iron County, MI?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 4,599 customers without power, beginning December 16, 2021 and lasting about 3d 17h.
- Is there a power outage in Iron County, MI right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Iron County, MI. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Iron County.
49902, 49903, 49915, 49920, 49927, 49935
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/26071 and /api/v1/counties/26071/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Michigan customers).