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2015 Clare County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Clare County, MI went without power for an average of 25.5 hours, a total of 461K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.8 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 89th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clare County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 21, 2015 23:15 | March 22, 2015 20:15 | 21h | 7,916 | 48K |
| 2 | December 24, 2015 06:45 | December 28, 2015 16:30 | 4d 9h | 6,477 | 272K |
| 3 | August 2, 2015 17:30 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 2d | 4,109 | 77K |
| 4 | October 14, 2015 09:00 | October 14, 2015 09:15 | 15m | 2,359 | 590 |
| 5 | May 9, 2015 17:30 | May 9, 2015 21:45 | 4h 15m | 2,186 | 4,678 |
| 6 | October 25, 2015 06:00 | October 25, 2015 08:30 | 2h 30m | 2,012 | 5,030 |
| 7 | November 18, 2015 23:00 | November 19, 2015 05:00 | 6h | 910 | 3,281 |
| 8 | December 11, 2015 00:45 | December 11, 2015 18:45 | 18h | 723 | 4,573 |
| 9 | April 10, 2015 09:00 | April 10, 2015 20:30 | 11h 30m | 697 | 2,386 |
| 10 | April 1, 2015 15:00 | April 1, 2015 15:15 | 15m | 649 | 162 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 71 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Clare County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2015 | 7.3 hrs | 1.18 | 3.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2015 | 15.2 hrs | 2.27 | 2.9 hrs | 1.35 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2015 | 4.7 hrs | 1.68 | 3.0 hrs | 1.49 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Michigan's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,061 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Clare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clare County, MI annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/michigan/clare-county