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2016 Houghton County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Houghton County, MI went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1751st 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 Houghton 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 1, 2016 14:30 | February 1, 2016 23:30 | 9h | 938 | 4,201 |
| 2 | July 21, 2016 14:15 | July 23, 2016 22:00 | 2d 7h | 920 | 9,002 |
| 3 | July 26, 2016 12:45 | July 26, 2016 14:30 | 1h 45m | 472 | 243 |
| 4 | March 17, 2016 08:15 | March 18, 2016 18:15 | 1d 10h | 432 | 4,791 |
| 5 | October 30, 2016 23:15 | October 31, 2016 02:45 | 3h 30m | 358 | 1,123 |
| 6 | May 6, 2016 21:30 | May 7, 2016 05:45 | 8h 15m | 333 | 435 |
| 7 | August 17, 2016 04:15 | August 17, 2016 06:00 | 1h 45m | 294 | 515 |
| 8 | July 13, 2016 18:45 | July 14, 2016 02:30 | 7h 45m | 292 | 1,008 |
| 9 | December 26, 2016 20:15 | December 27, 2016 07:30 | 11h 15m | 291 | 2,992 |
| 10 | April 30, 2016 08:30 | April 30, 2016 11:15 | 2h 45m | 264 | 455 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 13 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Houghton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | 2016 | 7.6 hrs | 2.10 | 2.7 hrs | 1.30 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ontonagon County R E A | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,579 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. Houghton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houghton 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/houghton-county