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2018 Kalkaska County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kalkaska County, MI went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1200th 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 Kalkaska 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 | November 9, 2018 19:45 | November 10, 2018 02:15 | 6h 30m | 2,046 | 4,310 |
| 2 | August 28, 2018 06:00 | August 30, 2018 17:30 | 2d 11h | 1,749 | 14K |
| 3 | September 21, 2018 16:15 | September 22, 2018 02:15 | 10h | 933 | 5,685 |
| 4 | April 15, 2018 03:15 | April 15, 2018 23:00 | 19h 45m | 823 | 3,962 |
| 5 | October 16, 2018 17:45 | October 16, 2018 19:30 | 1h 45m | 522 | 276 |
| 6 | September 4, 2018 10:30 | September 4, 2018 15:30 | 5h | 499 | 1,313 |
| 7 | April 14, 2018 08:15 | April 14, 2018 15:30 | 7h 15m | 448 | 975 |
| 8 | July 30, 2018 22:15 | July 31, 2018 02:30 | 4h 15m | 418 | 1,033 |
| 9 | October 23, 2018 22:15 | October 24, 2018 00:45 | 2h 30m | 349 | 175 |
| 10 | March 31, 2018 19:00 | April 1, 2018 01:15 | 6h 15m | 337 | 405 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 22 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 Kalkaska 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.29 | 3.3 hrs | 1.02 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2018 | 14.6 hrs | 2.44 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 |
| Cherryland Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.34 | 2.6 hrs | 1.20 |
| Wolverine Power Supply Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,279 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. Kalkaska County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kalkaska 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/kalkaska-county