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2016 Sanilac County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sanilac County, MI went without power for an average of 5.5 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 606th 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 Sanilac 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 19, 2016 22:45 | February 23, 2016 11:15 | 3d 12h | 4,787 | 67K |
| 2 | January 30, 2016 14:00 | January 30, 2016 20:45 | 6h 45m | 517 | 1,476 |
| 3 | February 1, 2016 13:00 | February 2, 2016 00:00 | 11h | 517 | 1,246 |
| 4 | January 22, 2016 01:45 | January 22, 2016 06:45 | 5h | 134 | 524 |
| 5 | January 10, 2016 12:30 | January 11, 2016 22:00 | 1d 9h | 116 | 859 |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 14:15 | February 25, 2016 03:45 | 13h 30m | 52 | 453 |
| 7 | February 3, 2016 14:45 | February 3, 2016 20:00 | 5h 15m | 20 | 105 |
| 8 | February 23, 2016 18:45 | February 24, 2016 01:15 | 6h 30m | 19 | 37 |
| 9 | January 26, 2016 14:15 | January 26, 2016 20:45 | 6h 30m | 18 | 95 |
| 10 | January 4, 2016 15:45 | January 4, 2016 19:00 | 3h 15m | 3 | 6 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 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 Sanilac 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTE Electric Company | 2016 | 4.0 hrs | 0.99 | 3.0 hrs | 0.91 |
| Thumb Electric Coop of Mich | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Croswell - (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 ÷ 12,899 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. Sanilac County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sanilac 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/sanilac-county