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2019 Branch County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Branch County, MI went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 262K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 651st 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 Branch 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 | September 29, 2019 07:15 | September 29, 2019 12:45 | 5h 30m | 4,037 | 6,058 |
| 2 | September 27, 2019 19:00 | September 28, 2019 00:45 | 5h 45m | 4,034 | 2,653 |
| 3 | May 23, 2019 09:15 | May 26, 2019 03:30 | 2d 18h | 3,995 | 112K |
| 4 | October 31, 2019 19:00 | November 1, 2019 11:30 | 16h 30m | 3,517 | 26K |
| 5 | February 12, 2019 08:15 | February 14, 2019 03:00 | 1d 18h | 2,017 | 12K |
| 6 | July 1, 2019 17:30 | July 1, 2019 21:30 | 4h | 1,803 | 4,140 |
| 7 | October 7, 2019 18:15 | October 7, 2019 21:45 | 3h 30m | 1,758 | 5,741 |
| 8 | October 9, 2019 02:45 | October 9, 2019 06:30 | 3h 45m | 1,747 | 3,063 |
| 9 | July 1, 2019 08:00 | July 1, 2019 14:30 | 6h 30m | 1,745 | 4,911 |
| 10 | November 27, 2019 13:45 | November 29, 2019 17:15 | 2d 3h | 1,727 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 54 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 Branch 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Coldwater Board of Public Util | 2018 | 77 min | 2.50 | - | - |
| Village of Union City - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 30,687 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. Branch County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Branch 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/branch-county