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2019 Clare County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Clare County, MI went without power for an average of 21.5 hours, a total of 389K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 197th 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 Clare 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 20, 2019 12:15 | October 20, 2019 17:30 | 5h 15m | 13,866 | 46K |
| 2 | September 3, 2019 16:45 | September 4, 2019 04:30 | 11h 45m | 5,783 | 40K |
| 3 | December 1, 2019 05:45 | December 4, 2019 04:45 | 2d 23h | 4,309 | 108K |
| 4 | July 20, 2019 05:15 | July 22, 2019 03:00 | 1d 21h | 4,202 | 69K |
| 5 | October 31, 2019 18:15 | November 2, 2019 06:30 | 1d 12h | 2,590 | 14K |
| 6 | May 25, 2019 00:15 | May 25, 2019 19:30 | 19h 15m | 2,346 | 14K |
| 7 | March 20, 2019 00:00 | March 20, 2019 00:30 | 30m | 2,047 | 513 |
| 8 | August 5, 2019 14:15 | August 5, 2019 15:45 | 1h 30m | 1,641 | 1,635 |
| 9 | March 10, 2019 00:30 | March 11, 2019 01:30 | 1d 1h | 1,498 | 8,280 |
| 10 | December 8, 2019 16:30 | December 8, 2019 19:30 | 3h | 1,346 | 1,630 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 87 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Clare 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 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2018 | 14.6 hrs | 2.44 | 2.7 hrs | 1.41 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 1.98 | 4.2 hrs | 1.89 |
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 ÷ 18,061 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. Clare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clare 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/clare-county