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2018 Wayne County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wayne County, MI went without power for an average of 34.5 hours, a total of 15.3M customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 171st 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 Wayne 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 13:45 | 28d 19h | 170,309 | 10.2M |
| 2 | April 9, 2018 10:30 | April 15, 2018 13:30 | 6d 3h | 60,204 | 85K |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 03:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 22h | 20,906 | 467K |
| 4 | July 19, 2018 00:15 | August 12, 2018 04:00 | 24d 3h | 19,109 | 1.0M |
| 5 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | November 10, 2018 11:45 | 56d 7h | 12,480 | 1.1M |
| 6 | August 18, 2018 13:15 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 27d 8h | 9,632 | 472K |
| 7 | May 25, 2018 10:15 | July 6, 2018 23:00 | 42d 12h | 9,232 | 1.1M |
| 8 | February 20, 2018 23:30 | March 2, 2018 02:15 | 9d 2h | 7,418 | 63K |
| 9 | November 14, 2018 01:45 | December 5, 2018 11:00 | 21d 9h | 7,082 | 156K |
| 10 | February 18, 2018 13:15 | February 20, 2018 21:45 | 2d 8h | 5,466 | 36K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 39 reached 100+ customers, 31 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Wayne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTE Electric Company | 2018 | 8.1 hrs | 1.36 | 3.0 hrs | 1.04 |
| Wyandotte Municipal Serv Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 441,528 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county