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2018 Oakland County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Oakland County, MI went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 7.7M customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 80 Michigan counties and 465th 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 Oakland 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 | April 15, 2018 18:00 | May 14, 2018 14:15 | 28d 20h | 70,985 | 4.7M |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 03:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 22h | 20,500 | 408K |
| 3 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 56d 7h | 16,475 | 864K |
| 4 | February 6, 2018 11:45 | February 11, 2018 08:00 | 4d 20h | 11,152 | 42K |
| 5 | July 6, 2018 23:45 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 11d 23h | 9,131 | 188K |
| 6 | April 12, 2018 09:00 | April 15, 2018 13:30 | 3d 4h | 8,748 | 28K |
| 7 | March 1, 2018 14:15 | March 2, 2018 02:15 | 12h | 8,304 | 26K |
| 8 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | July 6, 2018 23:00 | 42d 12h | 6,945 | 655K |
| 9 | March 26, 2018 11:00 | March 31, 2018 08:00 | 4d 21h | 6,007 | 41K |
| 10 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | August 12, 2018 04:00 | 24d 3h | 5,864 | 181K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 51 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Oakland 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 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2018 | 8.1 hrs | 1.36 | 3.0 hrs | 1.04 |
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 ÷ 646,293 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. Oakland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oakland 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/oakland-county