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2023 Houghton County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Houghton County, MI went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Michigan average 26.5 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 2312th 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 Houghton 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 | August 17, 2023 03:15 | August 17, 2023 03:30 | 15m | 2,485 | 621 |
| 2 | April 20, 2023 14:15 | April 20, 2023 14:30 | 15m | 2,255 | 564 |
| 3 | May 19, 2023 00:45 | May 19, 2023 02:00 | 1h 15m | 2,133 | 1,391 |
| 4 | November 16, 2023 19:30 | November 16, 2023 23:00 | 3h 30m | 2,100 | 3,376 |
| 5 | April 20, 2023 19:30 | April 21, 2023 04:45 | 9h 15m | 1,447 | 4,059 |
| 6 | July 13, 2023 19:15 | July 13, 2023 21:15 | 2h | 1,375 | 2,750 |
| 7 | October 11, 2023 18:45 | October 11, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 1,287 | 1,106 |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 09:30 | April 5, 2023 17:30 | 8h | 1,197 | 1,564 |
| 9 | June 5, 2023 15:15 | June 5, 2023 18:00 | 2h 45m | 1,179 | 1,479 |
| 10 | March 19, 2023 22:45 | March 20, 2023 02:30 | 3h 45m | 963 | 3,147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 31 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | 2023 | 7.1 hrs | 1.58 | 2.3 hrs | 0.98 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2023 | 6.1 hrs | 1.32 | 3.1 hrs | 1.01 |
| 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 n/a of Michigan's customers in 2023; 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, 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/houghton-county