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2017 Oakland County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Oakland County, MI went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (Michigan average 6.0 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1182nd 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 Oakland 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 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 15d 13h | 15,138 | 193K |
| 2 | April 2, 2017 11:00 | April 19, 2017 11:30 | 17d | 14,367 | 245K |
| 3 | September 15, 2017 12:15 | September 28, 2017 08:00 | 12d 19h | 11,787 | 70K |
| 4 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | August 14, 2017 14:00 | 38d 2h | 9,975 | 570K |
| 5 | September 28, 2017 10:30 | November 1, 2017 04:00 | 33d 17h | 9,750 | 434K |
| 6 | June 2, 2017 11:15 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 34d 11h | 8,458 | 346K |
| 7 | August 14, 2017 17:45 | September 15, 2017 06:45 | 31d 13h | 6,734 | 227K |
| 8 | December 18, 2017 11:30 | December 19, 2017 18:00 | 1d 6h | 6,222 | 24K |
| 9 | April 26, 2017 13:30 | May 10, 2017 06:00 | 13d 16h | 4,037 | 58K |
| 10 | April 19, 2017 12:45 | April 22, 2017 11:15 | 2d 22h | 3,063 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 20 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Oakland 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 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2017 | 17.7 hrs | 1.39 | 3.3 hrs | 0.99 |
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 ÷ 646,293 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. Oakland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oakland 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/oakland-county