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2019 Kent County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Kent County, MI went without power for an average of 20.6 hours, a total of 8.6M customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 210th 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 Kent 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 | February 6, 2019 03:45 | February 14, 2019 11:30 | 8d 7h | 96,039 | 4.9M |
| 2 | July 18, 2019 08:00 | July 26, 2019 04:30 | 7d 20h | 58,014 | 2.1M |
| 3 | September 11, 2019 14:45 | September 17, 2019 08:00 | 5d 17h | 31,556 | 578K |
| 4 | February 24, 2019 08:00 | February 27, 2019 01:15 | 2d 17h | 10,653 | 209K |
| 5 | November 27, 2019 12:30 | November 30, 2019 19:30 | 3d 7h | 10,030 | 109K |
| 6 | July 1, 2019 11:30 | July 7, 2019 21:45 | 6d 10h | 8,134 | 74K |
| 7 | May 31, 2019 10:30 | June 2, 2019 18:00 | 2d 7h | 5,944 | 28K |
| 8 | November 30, 2019 20:15 | December 4, 2019 09:00 | 3d 12h | 5,831 | 47K |
| 9 | April 11, 2019 00:00 | April 12, 2019 15:30 | 1d 15h | 5,264 | 27K |
| 10 | July 17, 2019 08:45 | July 18, 2019 06:00 | 21h 15m | 5,207 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 172 reached 100+ customers, 58 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Kent 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 |
| City of Lowell - (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 ÷ 416,077 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county