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2020 Wayne County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wayne County, MI went without power for an average of 25.1 hours, a total of 11.1M customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 343rd 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 Wayne 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 11, 2020 12:30 | February 13, 2020 11:45 | 1d 23h | 143,658 | 38K |
| 2 | June 12, 2020 20:45 | November 17, 2020 04:45 | 157d 8h | 108,397 | 9.3M |
| 3 | June 2, 2020 17:45 | June 10, 2020 20:30 | 8d 2h | 61,644 | 223K |
| 4 | November 17, 2020 06:15 | December 20, 2020 07:15 | 33d 1h | 33,878 | 808K |
| 5 | March 26, 2020 13:15 | April 15, 2020 07:30 | 19d 18h | 13,223 | 144K |
| 6 | January 1, 2020 00:00 | January 30, 2020 12:15 | 29d 12h | 9,247 | 128K |
| 7 | May 14, 2020 12:00 | June 2, 2020 17:00 | 19d 5h | 6,761 | 136K |
| 8 | March 3, 2020 13:00 | March 7, 2020 01:00 | 3d 12h | 5,488 | 20K |
| 9 | February 5, 2020 13:00 | February 11, 2020 10:45 | 5d 21h | 5,100 | 33K |
| 10 | March 7, 2020 01:45 | March 26, 2020 06:15 | 19d 4h | 4,684 | 71K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 23 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Wayne 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTE Electric Company | 2020 | 5.9 hrs | 1.29 | 2.4 hrs | 1.01 |
| Wyandotte Municipal Serv Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 441,528 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. Wayne County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wayne 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/wayne-county