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2020 Alpena County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Alpena County, MI went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 35K customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 83 Michigan counties and 2295th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alpena County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 12, 2020 15:45 | December 15, 2020 02:00 | 2d 10h | 2,060 | 15K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 15:00 | April 15, 2020 02:15 | 1d 11h | 598 | 5,623 |
| 3 | September 3, 2020 17:15 | September 4, 2020 01:15 | 8h | 508 | 1,388 |
| 4 | November 1, 2020 13:00 | November 3, 2020 01:00 | 1d 12h | 292 | 1,955 |
| 5 | May 26, 2020 00:00 | May 26, 2020 01:45 | 1h 45m | 281 | 419 |
| 6 | June 10, 2020 12:00 | June 10, 2020 17:30 | 5h 30m | 200 | 527 |
| 7 | July 18, 2020 16:00 | July 22, 2020 21:30 | 4d 5h | 173 | 3,263 |
| 8 | November 11, 2020 03:15 | November 11, 2020 18:00 | 14h 45m | 157 | 714 |
| 9 | August 9, 2020 22:15 | August 10, 2020 05:45 | 7h 30m | 130 | 445 |
| 10 | August 29, 2020 10:15 | August 29, 2020 15:30 | 5h 15m | 120 | 364 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 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 Alpena County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Presque Isle Elec & Gas Coop | 2015 | 22.8 hrs | 2.30 | 3.8 hrs | 1.32 |
| Wolverine Power Supply Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alpena Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of Michigan's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,236 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. Alpena County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alpena County, MI annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/michigan/alpena-county