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2023 Montcalm County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Montcalm County, MI went without power for an average of 27.1 hours, a total of 918K customer-hours (Michigan average 26.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 277th 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 Montcalm 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 | February 27, 2023 16:30 | March 3, 2023 09:45 | 3d 17h | 15,525 | 732K |
| 2 | June 25, 2023 21:00 | June 27, 2023 02:15 | 1d 5h | 4,357 | 33K |
| 3 | June 29, 2023 21:00 | July 1, 2023 06:15 | 1d 9h | 2,943 | 27K |
| 4 | September 6, 2023 20:30 | September 7, 2023 08:15 | 11h 45m | 1,567 | 8,224 |
| 5 | February 15, 2023 02:15 | February 15, 2023 04:30 | 2h 15m | 1,447 | 2,836 |
| 6 | July 8, 2023 03:45 | July 8, 2023 05:45 | 2h | 1,436 | 2,696 |
| 7 | December 18, 2023 14:45 | December 18, 2023 22:45 | 8h | 1,293 | 3,608 |
| 8 | March 25, 2023 12:45 | March 26, 2023 20:00 | 1d 7h | 1,280 | 6,168 |
| 9 | July 26, 2023 17:00 | July 27, 2023 02:00 | 9h | 1,204 | 3,257 |
| 10 | July 20, 2023 16:45 | July 21, 2023 14:30 | 21h 45m | 1,076 | 5,297 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 69 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Montcalm 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 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2023 | 25.7 hrs | 1.72 | 2.6 hrs | 0.85 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2023 | 15.2 hrs | 1.06 | 1.9 hrs | 0.72 |
| Wolverine Power Supply Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 33,946 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. Montcalm County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Montcalm 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/montcalm-county