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2016 Iron County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Iron County, MI went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 663rd 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 Iron 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 | July 21, 2016 11:30 | July 23, 2016 06:45 | 1d 19h | 1,470 | 3,805 |
| 2 | July 23, 2016 07:45 | July 23, 2016 08:30 | 45m | 1,285 | 964 |
| 3 | July 13, 2016 18:00 | July 14, 2016 06:15 | 12h 15m | 1,032 | 5,686 |
| 4 | June 24, 2016 12:30 | June 24, 2016 13:45 | 1h 15m | 743 | 558 |
| 5 | July 12, 2016 08:45 | July 13, 2016 00:15 | 15h 30m | 619 | 1,619 |
| 6 | June 10, 2016 22:15 | June 11, 2016 02:00 | 3h 45m | 518 | 809 |
| 7 | October 17, 2016 09:45 | October 17, 2016 12:45 | 3h | 496 | 1,156 |
| 8 | December 26, 2016 17:30 | December 27, 2016 10:30 | 17h | 393 | 4,309 |
| 9 | May 30, 2016 02:15 | May 30, 2016 07:00 | 4h 45m | 365 | 1,406 |
| 10 | April 18, 2016 08:00 | April 18, 2016 13:00 | 5h | 363 | 1,361 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 23 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Iron 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. | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Crystal Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,890 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. Iron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron 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/iron-county