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2020 Gogebic County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Gogebic County, MI went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 60K customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 945th 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 Gogebic 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 14, 2020 18:00 | December 14, 2020 20:30 | 2h 30m | 7,499 | 9,321 |
| 2 | September 9, 2020 22:30 | September 10, 2020 02:30 | 4h | 2,253 | 8,713 |
| 3 | November 2, 2020 20:00 | November 2, 2020 21:45 | 1h 45m | 2,178 | 2,365 |
| 4 | July 19, 2020 03:30 | July 20, 2020 07:30 | 1d 4h | 1,977 | 11K |
| 5 | December 3, 2020 13:15 | December 3, 2020 17:45 | 4h 30m | 1,936 | 3,353 |
| 6 | July 9, 2020 03:00 | July 10, 2020 00:15 | 21h 15m | 1,205 | 5,024 |
| 7 | September 3, 2020 14:15 | September 3, 2020 16:45 | 2h 30m | 1,200 | 639 |
| 8 | October 5, 2020 18:00 | October 6, 2020 03:45 | 9h 45m | 947 | 3,789 |
| 9 | October 31, 2020 12:00 | October 31, 2020 21:00 | 9h | 802 | 1,495 |
| 10 | August 9, 2020 23:30 | August 10, 2020 15:15 | 15h 45m | 565 | 2,550 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Gogebic 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.52 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2020 | 4.2 hrs | 2.71 | 3.7 hrs | 2.56 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ontonagon County R E A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wakefield - (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 95% of Michigan's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 7,394 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. Gogebic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gogebic 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/gogebic-county