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2020 Iron County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Iron County, MI went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1507th 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 Iron 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 | August 21, 2020 15:30 | August 22, 2020 03:00 | 11h 30m | 876 | 2,926 |
| 2 | July 18, 2020 10:30 | July 18, 2020 23:45 | 13h 15m | 789 | 775 |
| 3 | July 9, 2020 02:15 | July 10, 2020 06:30 | 1d 4h | 419 | 2,009 |
| 4 | September 25, 2020 03:00 | September 25, 2020 09:15 | 6h 15m | 406 | 1,730 |
| 5 | October 22, 2020 08:30 | October 22, 2020 13:45 | 5h 15m | 347 | 1,600 |
| 6 | September 15, 2020 16:15 | September 15, 2020 17:30 | 1h 15m | 325 | 245 |
| 7 | August 10, 2020 02:00 | August 11, 2020 20:45 | 1d 18h | 250 | 6,266 |
| 8 | November 1, 2020 12:00 | November 2, 2020 03:30 | 15h 30m | 247 | 1,047 |
| 9 | September 2, 2020 05:15 | September 2, 2020 07:15 | 2h | 236 | 472 |
| 10 | September 9, 2020 23:30 | September 10, 2020 02:30 | 3h | 210 | 524 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Iron 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 |
| City of Crystal Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,890 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. Iron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron 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/iron-county