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2020 Oakland County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Oakland County, MI went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 4.8M customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1034th 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 Oakland 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 | February 10, 2020 02:15 | February 17, 2020 02:45 | 7d | 156,519 | 57K |
| 2 | June 2, 2020 17:45 | June 29, 2020 21:15 | 27d 3h | 52,719 | 459K |
| 3 | October 12, 2020 12:00 | November 29, 2020 00:45 | 47d 12h | 52,675 | 1.8M |
| 4 | June 29, 2020 22:30 | October 12, 2020 10:00 | 104d 11h | 22,515 | 1.7M |
| 5 | March 17, 2020 12:30 | March 26, 2020 12:30 | 9d | 10,114 | 53K |
| 6 | February 2, 2020 06:30 | February 3, 2020 07:45 | 1d 1h | 9,762 | 6,402 |
| 7 | March 31, 2020 09:45 | April 7, 2020 10:00 | 7d | 6,747 | 59K |
| 8 | April 7, 2020 12:00 | April 15, 2020 09:30 | 7d 21h | 6,533 | 41K |
| 9 | May 20, 2020 11:15 | June 1, 2020 07:15 | 11d 20h | 6,100 | 102K |
| 10 | March 28, 2020 10:15 | March 31, 2020 08:15 | 2d 22h | 5,988 | 44K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 44 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Oakland 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 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 1.29 | 2.4 hrs | 1.01 |
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 ÷ 646,293 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. Oakland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oakland 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/oakland-county