County annual report · FIPS 26017
2016 Bay County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bay County, MI went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1794th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bay County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 24, 2016 18:00 | February 25, 2016 23:45 | 1d 5h | 4,378 | 40K |
| 2 | July 25, 2016 12:30 | July 25, 2016 17:15 | 4h 45m | 2,023 | 1,649 |
| 3 | May 30, 2016 13:45 | May 30, 2016 15:45 | 2h | 597 | 776 |
| 4 | July 8, 2016 03:00 | July 8, 2016 05:15 | 2h 15m | 543 | 1,090 |
| 5 | January 10, 2016 01:15 | January 10, 2016 04:45 | 3h 30m | 440 | 1,100 |
| 6 | May 8, 2016 14:30 | May 8, 2016 23:00 | 8h 30m | 410 | 2,445 |
| 7 | July 31, 2016 08:00 | July 31, 2016 11:00 | 3h | 315 | 244 |
| 8 | March 24, 2016 15:15 | March 25, 2016 20:30 | 1d 5h | 290 | 1,592 |
| 9 | June 19, 2016 03:15 | June 19, 2016 11:00 | 7h 45m | 274 | 1,433 |
| 10 | February 19, 2016 22:15 | February 21, 2016 00:15 | 1d 2h | 268 | 1,888 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 24 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Bay County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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) | 2016 | 4.7 hrs | 1.15 | 3.5 hrs | 1.01 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2016 | 4.0 hrs | 0.99 | 3.0 hrs | 0.91 |
| City of Bay City - (MI) | 2016 | 55 min | 0.52 | 55 min | 0.52 |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 66,162 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. Bay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bay County, MI annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/michigan/bay-county