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2019 Alger County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Alger County, MI went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 83 Michigan counties and 910th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alger County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 21, 2019 21:30 | October 21, 2019 22:15 | 45m | 1,272 | 360 |
| 2 | December 8, 2019 04:30 | December 8, 2019 08:45 | 4h 15m | 939 | 2,244 |
| 3 | February 24, 2019 14:45 | February 25, 2019 03:00 | 12h 15m | 806 | 956 |
| 4 | April 1, 2019 18:15 | April 1, 2019 18:30 | 15m | 803 | 201 |
| 5 | November 4, 2019 20:00 | November 4, 2019 21:15 | 1h 15m | 561 | 436 |
| 6 | October 16, 2019 11:15 | October 16, 2019 14:00 | 2h 45m | 560 | 1,403 |
| 7 | September 3, 2019 10:45 | September 3, 2019 12:30 | 1h 45m | 559 | 607 |
| 8 | December 29, 2019 08:15 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 1d 16h | 417 | 1,298 |
| 9 | July 31, 2019 22:30 | August 1, 2019 03:15 | 4h 45m | 305 | 621 |
| 10 | April 18, 2019 07:15 | April 18, 2019 10:15 | 3h | 296 | 888 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Alger County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.16 | 2.3 hrs | 1.16 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2018 | 4.1 hrs | 1.16 | 2.4 hrs | 0.91 |
| Alger-Delta Coop Electric Assn | 2018 | 74 min | 0.33 | 74 min | 0.33 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 96% of Michigan's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,553 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. Alger County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alger County, MI annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/michigan/alger-county