County annual report · FIPS 26023
2016 Branch County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Branch County, MI went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1527th 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 Branch 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 | April 26, 2016 00:00 | April 26, 2016 23:30 | 23h 30m | 1,452 | 10K |
| 2 | July 29, 2016 15:00 | July 30, 2016 21:15 | 1d 6h | 1,205 | 3,417 |
| 3 | January 10, 2016 11:30 | January 10, 2016 22:45 | 11h 15m | 806 | 2,683 |
| 4 | August 4, 2016 20:15 | August 5, 2016 01:30 | 5h 15m | 785 | 803 |
| 5 | February 19, 2016 18:15 | February 21, 2016 21:45 | 2d 3h | 520 | 9,360 |
| 6 | April 28, 2016 19:15 | April 28, 2016 19:30 | 15m | 498 | 125 |
| 7 | June 23, 2016 01:45 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 8h 15m | 473 | 848 |
| 8 | April 2, 2016 21:00 | April 3, 2016 13:45 | 16h 45m | 399 | 2,604 |
| 9 | July 21, 2016 19:00 | July 22, 2016 20:00 | 1d 1h | 339 | 2,137 |
| 10 | August 7, 2016 20:45 | August 8, 2016 04:00 | 7h 15m | 333 | 687 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 29 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 Branch 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 |
| Coldwater Board of Public Util | 2016 | 82 min | 1.67 | - | - |
| Village of Union City - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 30,687 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. Branch County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Branch 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/branch-county