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2018 Wexford County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wexford County, MI went without power for an average of 14.5 hours, a total of 313K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 383rd 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 Wexford 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 28, 2018 23:30 | September 1, 2018 21:30 | 3d 22h | 4,720 | 232K |
| 2 | May 19, 2018 06:15 | May 19, 2018 12:30 | 6h 15m | 1,963 | 9,560 |
| 3 | August 27, 2018 22:30 | August 28, 2018 22:30 | 1d | 1,722 | 13K |
| 4 | October 20, 2018 20:00 | October 22, 2018 01:45 | 1d 5h | 1,670 | 11K |
| 5 | February 20, 2018 17:30 | February 20, 2018 21:15 | 3h 45m | 1,615 | 2,047 |
| 6 | July 21, 2018 12:45 | July 21, 2018 21:45 | 9h | 1,210 | 2,534 |
| 7 | March 27, 2018 20:45 | March 27, 2018 21:45 | 1h | 942 | 473 |
| 8 | October 20, 2018 15:45 | October 20, 2018 19:00 | 3h 15m | 834 | 2,292 |
| 9 | January 27, 2018 04:15 | January 27, 2018 09:30 | 5h 15m | 754 | 3,211 |
| 10 | June 6, 2018 10:30 | June 6, 2018 18:45 | 8h 15m | 720 | 5,232 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 52 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Wexford 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 |
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 ÷ 21,518 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. Wexford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wexford 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/wexford-county