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2022 Houghton County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Houghton County, MI went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 99K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.5 hours). That ranks 76th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1767th 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 Houghton 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 | April 7, 2022 16:15 | April 7, 2022 17:00 | 45m | 5,370 | 3,185 |
| 2 | March 23, 2022 14:45 | March 25, 2022 01:30 | 1d 10h | 3,777 | 22K |
| 3 | May 18, 2022 23:45 | May 19, 2022 00:30 | 45m | 2,472 | 1,568 |
| 4 | December 15, 2022 12:00 | December 15, 2022 17:15 | 5h 15m | 2,416 | 5,913 |
| 5 | December 24, 2022 20:45 | December 25, 2022 06:00 | 9h 15m | 2,129 | 4,583 |
| 6 | June 25, 2022 11:45 | June 25, 2022 15:45 | 4h | 1,898 | 6,752 |
| 7 | October 3, 2022 20:00 | October 3, 2022 22:15 | 2h 15m | 1,491 | 1,868 |
| 8 | September 20, 2022 22:30 | September 20, 2022 23:45 | 1h 15m | 1,295 | 1,615 |
| 9 | April 14, 2022 07:15 | April 14, 2022 10:45 | 3h 30m | 1,283 | 2,888 |
| 10 | April 28, 2022 12:45 | April 28, 2022 13:15 | 30m | 959 | 442 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 41 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Houghton 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 |
| Ontonagon County R E A | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 27,579 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. Houghton County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Houghton 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/houghton-county