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2022 Alger County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Alger County, MI went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.5 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1118th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alger County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 18, 2022 04:45 | October 19, 2022 19:15 | 1d 14h | 3,268 | 15K |
| 2 | April 13, 2022 09:30 | April 13, 2022 11:45 | 2h 15m | 887 | 984 |
| 3 | May 9, 2022 16:30 | May 10, 2022 06:30 | 14h | 860 | 3,478 |
| 4 | September 22, 2022 19:00 | September 22, 2022 21:15 | 2h 15m | 819 | 1,239 |
| 5 | February 19, 2022 07:15 | February 19, 2022 14:45 | 7h 30m | 801 | 1,105 |
| 6 | August 3, 2022 11:15 | August 3, 2022 15:15 | 4h | 800 | 618 |
| 7 | September 8, 2022 12:15 | September 8, 2022 13:15 | 1h | 563 | 423 |
| 8 | February 1, 2022 17:45 | February 1, 2022 20:30 | 2h 45m | 562 | 1,123 |
| 9 | July 19, 2022 18:45 | July 19, 2022 19:00 | 15m | 325 | 81 |
| 10 | October 17, 2022 18:30 | October 18, 2022 03:45 | 9h 15m | 306 | 1,455 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 17 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Alger County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | 2022 | 9.4 hrs | 2.31 | 3.4 hrs | 1.48 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2022 | 13.3 hrs | 2.34 | 4.8 hrs | 1.39 |
| Alger-Delta Coop Electric Assn | 2022 | 6.5 hrs | 1.60 | 3.7 hrs | 1.36 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 96% of Michigan's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 4,553 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. Alger County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alger County, MI annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/michigan/alger-county