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2022 Bay County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bay County, MI went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 407K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.5 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1177th 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 Bay 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 | June 16, 2022 08:15 | June 18, 2022 10:15 | 2d 2h | 6,128 | 83K |
| 2 | November 5, 2022 23:00 | November 8, 2022 21:15 | 2d 22h | 4,811 | 193K |
| 3 | November 15, 2022 22:00 | November 16, 2022 05:45 | 7h 45m | 2,544 | 11K |
| 4 | December 23, 2022 02:00 | December 25, 2022 01:15 | 1d 23h | 2,115 | 16K |
| 5 | November 19, 2022 08:15 | November 19, 2022 22:15 | 14h | 1,667 | 1,141 |
| 6 | April 24, 2022 03:15 | April 24, 2022 14:30 | 11h 15m | 1,336 | 10K |
| 7 | May 1, 2022 03:15 | May 1, 2022 07:00 | 3h 45m | 1,232 | 4,620 |
| 8 | February 22, 2022 18:45 | February 23, 2022 21:00 | 1d 2h | 1,105 | 11K |
| 9 | June 13, 2022 15:30 | June 13, 2022 21:00 | 5h 30m | 1,060 | 805 |
| 10 | September 8, 2022 17:45 | September 8, 2022 21:00 | 3h 15m | 1,031 | 704 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 52 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Bay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2022 | 7.8 hrs | 1.29 | 3.0 hrs | 0.96 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2022 | 9.7 hrs | 1.25 | 2.4 hrs | 0.98 |
| City of Bay City - (MI) | 2022 | 3.2 hrs | 0.60 | 56 min | 0.38 |
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 ÷ 66,162 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. Bay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bay 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/bay-county