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2019 Houghton County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Houghton County, MI went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1921st 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 Houghton 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 | August 28, 2019 18:00 | August 28, 2019 18:45 | 45m | 6,880 | 2,194 |
| 2 | May 9, 2019 21:00 | May 9, 2019 23:00 | 2h | 4,799 | 3,651 |
| 3 | April 12, 2019 01:00 | April 12, 2019 20:15 | 19h 15m | 3,170 | 18K |
| 4 | September 23, 2019 17:30 | September 23, 2019 18:30 | 1h | 1,976 | 1,531 |
| 5 | November 27, 2019 10:00 | November 27, 2019 12:45 | 2h 45m | 1,688 | 3,480 |
| 6 | September 13, 2019 00:45 | September 13, 2019 08:15 | 7h 30m | 1,577 | 12K |
| 7 | July 25, 2019 15:15 | July 25, 2019 16:00 | 45m | 1,574 | 1,180 |
| 8 | April 11, 2019 21:30 | April 11, 2019 23:00 | 1h 30m | 1,573 | 2,030 |
| 9 | July 29, 2019 13:45 | July 29, 2019 18:00 | 4h 15m | 1,542 | 1,140 |
| 10 | April 16, 2019 15:15 | April 16, 2019 15:30 | 15m | 1,483 | 371 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 38 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Houghton 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 |
| Ontonagon County R E A | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,579 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. Houghton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houghton 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/houghton-county