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2021 Dickinson County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Dickinson County, MI went without power for an average of 8.1 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (Michigan average 26.6 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 928th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dickinson County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 16, 2021 06:15 | December 18, 2021 18:00 | 2d 11h | 4,214 | 33K |
| 2 | October 26, 2021 12:30 | October 26, 2021 18:00 | 5h 30m | 2,370 | 5,927 |
| 3 | July 27, 2021 04:45 | July 29, 2021 20:00 | 2d 15h | 1,979 | 31K |
| 4 | August 11, 2021 18:15 | August 11, 2021 21:45 | 3h 30m | 1,237 | 926 |
| 5 | May 9, 2021 21:00 | May 9, 2021 21:30 | 30m | 1,139 | 285 |
| 6 | June 8, 2021 22:15 | June 10, 2021 01:30 | 1d 3h | 1,091 | 11K |
| 7 | November 11, 2021 19:30 | November 12, 2021 00:45 | 5h 15m | 964 | 3,470 |
| 8 | April 4, 2021 16:30 | April 4, 2021 22:15 | 5h 45m | 855 | 2,567 |
| 9 | September 21, 2021 03:45 | September 21, 2021 09:30 | 5h 45m | 471 | 1,244 |
| 10 | August 29, 2021 07:30 | August 29, 2021 19:30 | 12h | 470 | 2,203 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 16 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Dickinson County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2021 | 7.0 hrs | 1.13 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 |
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | 2021 | 4.6 hrs | 1.48 | 2.5 hrs | 1.16 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2021 | 13.0 hrs | 2.15 | 4.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| Alger-Delta Coop Electric Assn | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.01 | 55 min | 0.99 |
| City of Norway | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,110 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. Dickinson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dickinson County, MI annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/michigan/dickinson-county