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2018 Kent County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kent County, MI went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1291st 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 Kent 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 | August 26, 2018 19:00 | August 31, 2018 07:00 | 4d 12h | 23,492 | 449K |
| 2 | June 30, 2018 11:30 | July 4, 2018 08:45 | 3d 21h | 17,434 | 219K |
| 3 | May 4, 2018 01:00 | May 7, 2018 02:30 | 3d 1h | 15,957 | 149K |
| 4 | February 23, 2018 14:30 | March 5, 2018 22:15 | 10d 7h | 8,363 | 123K |
| 5 | September 2, 2018 03:30 | September 6, 2018 20:45 | 4d 17h | 6,683 | 83K |
| 6 | April 14, 2018 04:00 | April 16, 2018 15:15 | 2d 11h | 6,644 | 100K |
| 7 | November 23, 2018 04:45 | November 23, 2018 18:45 | 14h | 5,451 | 15K |
| 8 | November 24, 2018 16:45 | November 24, 2018 22:00 | 5h 15m | 5,436 | 4,961 |
| 9 | October 19, 2018 13:15 | October 22, 2018 02:30 | 2d 13h | 4,547 | 28K |
| 10 | September 29, 2018 13:00 | September 29, 2018 21:15 | 8h 15m | 3,786 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 159 reached 100+ customers, 44 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 Kent 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 |
| City of Lowell - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 416,077 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county