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2018 Alger County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Alger County, MI went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1557th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alger County, 2018
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 18, 2018 17:00 | September 18, 2018 18:00 | 1h | 889 | 451 |
| 2 | October 5, 2018 11:30 | October 5, 2018 12:30 | 1h | 665 | 334 |
| 3 | October 4, 2018 06:45 | October 4, 2018 19:30 | 12h 45m | 624 | 1,962 |
| 4 | September 21, 2018 05:30 | September 22, 2018 18:15 | 1d 12h | 427 | 5,140 |
| 5 | October 27, 2018 15:00 | October 27, 2018 15:45 | 45m | 358 | 269 |
| 6 | September 5, 2018 14:15 | September 5, 2018 15:00 | 45m | 309 | 156 |
| 7 | May 4, 2018 07:30 | May 4, 2018 16:45 | 9h 15m | 296 | 2,644 |
| 8 | August 17, 2018 14:30 | August 17, 2018 17:45 | 3h 15m | 295 | 665 |
| 9 | June 15, 2018 18:00 | June 16, 2018 00:30 | 6h 30m | 282 | 322 |
| 10 | October 15, 2018 12:15 | October 15, 2018 14:45 | 2h 30m | 65 | 132 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 9 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Alger County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.16 | 2.3 hrs | 1.16 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2018 | 4.1 hrs | 1.16 | 2.4 hrs | 0.91 |
| Alger-Delta Coop Electric Assn | 2018 | 74 min | 0.33 | 74 min | 0.33 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of Michigan's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,553 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. Alger County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alger County, MI annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/michigan/alger-county