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2018 Houghton County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Houghton County, MI went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 74th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 2225th 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 Houghton 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 | May 10, 2018 03:00 | May 10, 2018 13:00 | 10h | 1,197 | 1,006 |
| 2 | November 9, 2018 23:45 | November 10, 2018 06:45 | 7h | 1,037 | 3,740 |
| 3 | May 19, 2018 17:30 | May 19, 2018 21:30 | 4h | 723 | 1,284 |
| 4 | June 17, 2018 06:15 | June 19, 2018 02:45 | 1d 20h | 707 | 5,178 |
| 5 | August 28, 2018 01:30 | August 28, 2018 03:15 | 1h 45m | 593 | 926 |
| 6 | August 28, 2018 04:45 | August 28, 2018 20:45 | 16h | 531 | 1,397 |
| 7 | October 30, 2018 14:45 | October 30, 2018 15:00 | 15m | 436 | 109 |
| 8 | September 21, 2018 10:30 | September 21, 2018 18:45 | 8h 15m | 366 | 654 |
| 9 | December 13, 2018 13:30 | December 13, 2018 16:15 | 2h 45m | 337 | 760 |
| 10 | December 15, 2018 12:00 | December 15, 2018 14:15 | 2h 15m | 326 | 119 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 33 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| 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 91% of Michigan's customers in 2018; 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, 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/houghton-county