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2016 Lake County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lake County, MI went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 854th 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 Lake 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 9, 2016 14:30 | February 9, 2016 22:00 | 7h 30m | 1,148 | 1,398 |
| 2 | February 3, 2016 00:00 | February 3, 2016 08:45 | 8h 45m | 994 | 6,819 |
| 3 | February 4, 2016 13:45 | February 4, 2016 15:45 | 2h | 844 | 213 |
| 4 | June 17, 2016 13:30 | June 17, 2016 16:15 | 2h 45m | 687 | 949 |
| 5 | February 4, 2016 01:30 | February 4, 2016 02:00 | 30m | 429 | 215 |
| 6 | September 16, 2016 21:45 | September 17, 2016 01:15 | 3h 30m | 417 | 1,268 |
| 7 | January 12, 2016 04:30 | January 12, 2016 21:15 | 16h 45m | 381 | 1,953 |
| 8 | March 24, 2016 05:00 | March 25, 2016 21:30 | 1d 16h | 360 | 4,261 |
| 9 | October 29, 2016 02:45 | October 29, 2016 03:45 | 1h | 275 | 70 |
| 10 | March 18, 2016 13:45 | March 18, 2016 15:45 | 2h | 244 | 488 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 27 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Lake 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 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2016 | 4.3 hrs | 1.82 | 2.7 hrs | 1.46 |
| Wolverine Power Supply Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,226 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. Lake County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lake 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/lake-county