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2017 Iron County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Iron County, MI went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.0 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 578th 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 Iron 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 | September 22, 2017 17:30 | September 24, 2017 00:15 | 1d 6h | 1,520 | 4,075 |
| 2 | April 10, 2017 03:15 | April 12, 2017 10:30 | 2d 7h | 1,381 | 18K |
| 3 | March 7, 2017 11:15 | March 9, 2017 17:15 | 2d 6h | 1,062 | 15K |
| 4 | June 25, 2017 05:45 | June 25, 2017 09:15 | 3h 30m | 494 | 1,606 |
| 5 | August 1, 2017 22:00 | August 2, 2017 04:15 | 6h 15m | 364 | 637 |
| 6 | August 27, 2017 19:15 | August 27, 2017 21:15 | 2h | 345 | 518 |
| 7 | May 13, 2017 20:00 | May 13, 2017 23:30 | 3h 30m | 343 | 783 |
| 8 | October 24, 2017 14:00 | October 24, 2017 22:15 | 8h 15m | 342 | 1,654 |
| 9 | May 10, 2017 13:30 | May 10, 2017 15:30 | 2h | 341 | 570 |
| 10 | June 10, 2017 17:45 | June 11, 2017 04:30 | 10h 45m | 319 | 2,004 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 17 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 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/iron-county