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2017 Clare County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Clare County, MI went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 633rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clare County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 5, 2017 08:30 | December 7, 2017 05:45 | 1d 21h | 6,292 | 45K |
| 2 | March 9, 2017 19:30 | March 10, 2017 16:30 | 21h | 2,611 | 29K |
| 3 | November 19, 2017 08:15 | November 19, 2017 20:30 | 12h 15m | 2,271 | 12K |
| 4 | September 22, 2017 20:45 | September 23, 2017 04:30 | 7h 45m | 2,021 | 12K |
| 5 | June 22, 2017 12:00 | June 22, 2017 16:30 | 4h 30m | 1,712 | 2,563 |
| 6 | November 8, 2017 20:45 | November 8, 2017 22:30 | 1h 45m | 1,179 | 1,234 |
| 7 | October 8, 2017 08:00 | October 8, 2017 15:00 | 7h | 1,120 | 2,314 |
| 8 | September 23, 2017 15:45 | September 23, 2017 19:15 | 3h 30m | 1,031 | 1,512 |
| 9 | August 14, 2017 21:45 | August 14, 2017 23:45 | 2h | 938 | 236 |
| 10 | June 30, 2017 04:00 | June 30, 2017 15:15 | 11h 15m | 937 | 7,562 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 51 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Clare County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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) | 2017 | 10.1 hrs | 1.31 | 2.7 hrs | 0.89 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2017 | 5.6 hrs | 2.07 | 3.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 1.52 | 2.3 hrs | 1.34 |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,061 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. Clare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clare County, MI annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/michigan/clare-county