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2017 Houghton County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Houghton County, MI went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 19K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.0 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 2199th 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 Houghton 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 09:45 | December 5, 2017 17:00 | 7h 15m | 2,429 | 5,730 |
| 2 | January 18, 2017 03:45 | January 18, 2017 05:45 | 2h | 668 | 1,336 |
| 3 | November 11, 2017 22:30 | November 12, 2017 07:45 | 9h 15m | 459 | 1,789 |
| 4 | March 7, 2017 11:45 | March 9, 2017 03:15 | 1d 15h | 381 | 3,136 |
| 5 | December 16, 2017 09:30 | December 16, 2017 11:30 | 2h | 334 | 358 |
| 6 | May 17, 2017 01:45 | May 17, 2017 04:00 | 2h 15m | 293 | 587 |
| 7 | October 31, 2017 13:45 | October 31, 2017 20:00 | 6h 15m | 280 | 1,244 |
| 8 | October 24, 2017 04:00 | October 24, 2017 06:45 | 2h 45m | 257 | 446 |
| 9 | December 6, 2017 00:00 | December 6, 2017 05:00 | 5h | 242 | 367 |
| 10 | November 20, 2017 16:45 | November 20, 2017 17:45 | 1h | 172 | 172 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 15 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 Houghton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | 2017 | 10.0 hrs | 2.20 | 2.9 hrs | 1.30 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2017 | 9.2 hrs | 1.85 | 2.5 hrs | 0.98 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/houghton-county