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2018 Montcalm County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Montcalm County, MI went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 374K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 501st 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 Montcalm 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 4, 2018 09:45 | May 6, 2018 22:45 | 2d 13h | 6,805 | 129K |
| 2 | February 19, 2018 23:15 | February 20, 2018 07:30 | 8h 15m | 6,136 | 19K |
| 3 | August 27, 2018 02:30 | August 31, 2018 15:00 | 4d 12h | 5,474 | 88K |
| 4 | July 1, 2018 22:45 | July 3, 2018 03:15 | 1d 4h | 2,293 | 23K |
| 5 | December 22, 2018 13:45 | December 22, 2018 15:45 | 2h | 1,995 | 502 |
| 6 | April 14, 2018 05:30 | April 16, 2018 08:30 | 2d 3h | 1,711 | 26K |
| 7 | November 4, 2018 15:00 | November 4, 2018 19:15 | 4h 15m | 1,458 | 1,381 |
| 8 | April 10, 2018 14:00 | April 10, 2018 15:45 | 1h 45m | 1,449 | 1,459 |
| 9 | June 19, 2018 18:45 | June 19, 2018 21:00 | 2h 15m | 1,089 | 1,645 |
| 10 | February 25, 2018 10:15 | February 26, 2018 01:15 | 15h | 1,063 | 5,564 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 69 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Montcalm 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 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2018 | 8.1 hrs | 1.36 | 3.0 hrs | 1.04 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 | 4.2 hrs | 1.89 |
| 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 ÷ 33,946 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. Montcalm County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montcalm 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/montcalm-county