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2020 Clare County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Clare County, MI went without power for an average of 20.0 hours, a total of 361K customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 429th 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 Clare 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 09:00 | December 15, 2020 03:15 | 2d 18h | 7,785 | 213K |
| 2 | August 14, 2020 09:00 | August 14, 2020 12:45 | 3h 45m | 4,663 | 9,486 |
| 3 | May 18, 2020 03:00 | May 20, 2020 00:30 | 1d 21h | 2,340 | 21K |
| 4 | June 10, 2020 18:30 | June 14, 2020 09:15 | 3d 14h | 1,909 | 46K |
| 5 | August 11, 2020 01:00 | August 11, 2020 20:30 | 19h 30m | 1,216 | 3,513 |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 15:00 | April 14, 2020 00:45 | 9h 45m | 1,144 | 3,721 |
| 7 | November 1, 2020 07:45 | November 2, 2020 19:00 | 1d 11h | 1,018 | 3,334 |
| 8 | November 11, 2020 01:45 | November 12, 2020 02:00 | 1d | 1,016 | 8,147 |
| 9 | October 24, 2020 08:15 | October 24, 2020 09:45 | 1h 30m | 955 | 1,344 |
| 10 | July 4, 2020 14:00 | July 5, 2020 06:00 | 16h | 836 | 3,411 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 57 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Clare 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2020 | 8.5 hrs | 1.35 | 3.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2020 | 8.1 hrs | 2.57 | 3.5 hrs | 1.72 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 1.61 | 2.6 hrs | 1.42 |
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 ÷ 18,061 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, 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/clare-county