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2022 Branch County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Branch County, MI went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.5 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1150th 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 Branch 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 | August 29, 2022 20:30 | September 1, 2022 17:15 | 2d 20h | 2,986 | 97K |
| 2 | June 14, 2022 00:45 | June 15, 2022 19:15 | 1d 18h | 1,898 | 30K |
| 3 | December 7, 2022 15:45 | December 7, 2022 17:00 | 1h 15m | 1,464 | 1,211 |
| 4 | April 1, 2022 19:00 | April 2, 2022 00:00 | 5h | 1,424 | 1,785 |
| 5 | June 1, 2022 15:00 | June 1, 2022 18:30 | 3h 30m | 1,122 | 611 |
| 6 | November 5, 2022 14:30 | November 8, 2022 09:00 | 2d 18h | 870 | 21K |
| 7 | July 13, 2022 03:00 | July 13, 2022 06:15 | 3h 15m | 656 | 1,964 |
| 8 | July 28, 2022 01:30 | July 28, 2022 02:45 | 1h 15m | 616 | 723 |
| 9 | July 5, 2022 07:15 | July 6, 2022 19:30 | 1d 12h | 551 | 4,713 |
| 10 | July 23, 2022 12:45 | July 24, 2022 18:00 | 1d 5h | 433 | 2,313 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 40 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 Branch 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 |
| Coldwater Board of Public Util | 2022 | 75 min | 0.63 | 75 min | 0.63 |
| Village of Union City - (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 96% of Michigan's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 30,687 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. Branch County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Branch 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/branch-county