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2020 Houghton County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Houghton County, MI went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 97K customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 75th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1722nd 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 Houghton 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 | July 19, 2020 04:45 | July 20, 2020 21:45 | 1d 17h | 14,073 | 25K |
| 2 | July 6, 2020 17:15 | July 6, 2020 23:45 | 6h 30m | 2,486 | 1,746 |
| 3 | September 26, 2020 01:45 | September 27, 2020 03:45 | 1d 2h | 2,270 | 17K |
| 4 | September 3, 2020 13:00 | September 4, 2020 02:30 | 13h 30m | 2,154 | 4,099 |
| 5 | February 3, 2020 16:30 | February 3, 2020 19:45 | 3h 15m | 2,032 | 719 |
| 6 | November 1, 2020 08:30 | November 1, 2020 11:45 | 3h 15m | 1,725 | 3,883 |
| 7 | October 1, 2020 21:15 | October 2, 2020 10:00 | 12h 45m | 1,564 | 13K |
| 8 | August 19, 2020 14:00 | August 19, 2020 17:00 | 3h | 1,384 | 1,411 |
| 9 | November 1, 2020 12:30 | November 2, 2020 18:30 | 1d 6h | 1,310 | 2,431 |
| 10 | August 26, 2020 12:45 | August 26, 2020 23:15 | 10h 30m | 1,029 | 1,564 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 43 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | 2020 | 4.9 hrs | 2.30 | 3.4 hrs | 1.77 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2020 | 4.2 hrs | 2.71 | 3.7 hrs | 2.56 |
| 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 95% of Michigan's customers in 2020; 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, 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/houghton-county