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2020 Montcalm County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Montcalm County, MI went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 337K customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 789th 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 Montcalm 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 | June 17, 2020 13:30 | June 17, 2020 17:15 | 3h 45m | 8,174 | 8,098 |
| 2 | June 9, 2020 20:45 | June 14, 2020 20:45 | 5d | 5,186 | 127K |
| 3 | June 3, 2020 04:15 | June 4, 2020 18:00 | 1d 13h | 4,260 | 37K |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 14:15 | November 17, 2020 08:45 | 1d 18h | 2,375 | 20K |
| 5 | June 18, 2020 21:15 | June 19, 2020 00:00 | 2h 45m | 2,059 | 2,456 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 21:00 | January 12, 2020 09:15 | 12h 15m | 1,939 | 7,318 |
| 7 | August 4, 2020 13:00 | August 4, 2020 18:45 | 5h 45m | 1,908 | 5,679 |
| 8 | September 12, 2020 07:45 | September 12, 2020 08:45 | 1h | 1,888 | 931 |
| 9 | July 3, 2020 12:00 | July 5, 2020 02:00 | 1d 14h | 1,648 | 8,109 |
| 10 | August 28, 2020 13:45 | August 30, 2020 10:15 | 1d 20h | 1,496 | 35K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 84 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Montcalm 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 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 1.29 | 2.4 hrs | 1.01 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2020 | 3.8 hrs | 1.61 | 2.6 hrs | 1.42 |
| Wolverine Power Supply Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 33,946 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. Montcalm County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montcalm 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/montcalm-county