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2022 Kent County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Kent County, MI went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (Michigan average 10.5 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1389th 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 Kent 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 | July 20, 2022 07:45 | July 27, 2022 09:30 | 7d 1h | 31,712 | 691K |
| 2 | March 5, 2022 21:30 | March 7, 2022 22:30 | 2d 1h | 17,666 | 189K |
| 3 | August 28, 2022 12:45 | September 1, 2022 07:45 | 3d 19h | 17,563 | 285K |
| 4 | April 5, 2022 13:30 | April 6, 2022 20:30 | 1d 7h | 9,690 | 40K |
| 5 | November 5, 2022 09:00 | November 8, 2022 10:15 | 3d 1h | 9,373 | 135K |
| 6 | April 23, 2022 11:45 | April 25, 2022 09:00 | 1d 21h | 6,239 | 15K |
| 7 | December 15, 2022 01:30 | December 17, 2022 00:00 | 1d 22h | 5,206 | 53K |
| 8 | June 20, 2022 09:15 | June 21, 2022 04:00 | 18h 45m | 4,521 | 20K |
| 9 | October 24, 2022 12:30 | October 28, 2022 03:15 | 3d 14h | 4,173 | 8,065 |
| 10 | September 16, 2022 12:00 | September 16, 2022 19:30 | 7h 30m | 4,049 | 9,232 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 182 reached 100+ customers, 69 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Kent 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 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2022 | 9.1 hrs | 2.37 | 3.5 hrs | 1.71 |
| City of Lowell - (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 ÷ 416,077 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county