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2023 Clare County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Clare County, MI went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 103K customer-hours (Michigan average 26.5 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1337th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Clare County, 2023
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 23, 2023 13:15 | July 23, 2023 18:45 | 5h 30m | 4,339 | 9,344 |
| 2 | February 15, 2023 16:15 | February 16, 2023 06:00 | 13h 45m | 3,429 | 6,063 |
| 3 | March 25, 2023 15:00 | March 26, 2023 06:00 | 15h | 3,116 | 21K |
| 4 | December 9, 2023 17:30 | December 10, 2023 17:45 | 1d | 1,797 | 8,987 |
| 5 | June 28, 2023 21:00 | June 29, 2023 04:00 | 7h | 1,339 | 7,004 |
| 6 | September 29, 2023 20:30 | September 29, 2023 20:45 | 15m | 1,264 | 316 |
| 7 | July 25, 2023 22:15 | July 26, 2023 02:00 | 3h 45m | 1,145 | 3,781 |
| 8 | October 22, 2023 17:30 | October 22, 2023 19:30 | 2h | 1,049 | 1,904 |
| 9 | December 6, 2023 04:45 | December 6, 2023 09:00 | 4h 15m | 1,030 | 4,378 |
| 10 | July 21, 2023 04:00 | July 21, 2023 07:00 | 3h | 1,025 | 3,075 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 55 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 Clare County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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) | 2023 | 15.2 hrs | 1.37 | 2.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2023 | 4.4 hrs | 1.69 | 3.4 hrs | 1.56 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2023 | 15.2 hrs | 1.06 | 1.9 hrs | 0.72 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Michigan's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,061 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. Clare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clare County, MI annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/michigan/clare-county