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2021 Gogebic County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Gogebic County, MI went without power for an average of 23.7 hours, a total of 175K customer-hours (Michigan average 26.6 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 359th 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 Gogebic 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 | March 22, 2021 11:45 | March 22, 2021 20:00 | 8h 15m | 7,561 | 20K |
| 2 | July 27, 2021 02:45 | July 29, 2021 20:45 | 2d 18h | 5,840 | 91K |
| 3 | December 16, 2021 05:15 | December 19, 2021 19:45 | 3d 14h | 3,444 | 49K |
| 4 | September 6, 2021 01:30 | September 6, 2021 02:15 | 45m | 2,484 | 1,863 |
| 5 | August 30, 2021 15:15 | August 30, 2021 23:00 | 7h 45m | 1,983 | 2,021 |
| 6 | June 24, 2021 23:45 | June 25, 2021 02:45 | 3h | 983 | 1,230 |
| 7 | February 27, 2021 02:00 | February 27, 2021 06:30 | 4h 30m | 965 | 1,396 |
| 8 | September 21, 2021 05:45 | September 21, 2021 09:45 | 4h | 319 | 343 |
| 9 | January 21, 2021 15:15 | January 21, 2021 22:00 | 6h 45m | 277 | 600 |
| 10 | December 6, 2021 12:30 | December 6, 2021 20:00 | 7h 30m | 242 | 1,151 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 17 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Gogebic 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | 1.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2021 | 13.0 hrs | 2.15 | 4.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ontonagon County R E A | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wakefield - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,394 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. Gogebic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gogebic 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/gogebic-county