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2024 Bay County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bay County, MI went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 399K customer-hours (Michigan average 8.5 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1417th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bay County, 2024
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 27, 2024 19:45 | August 31, 2024 04:30 | 3d 8h | 8,337 | 241K |
| 2 | January 12, 2024 21:30 | January 16, 2024 08:15 | 3d 10h | 3,606 | 73K |
| 3 | April 12, 2024 17:15 | April 14, 2024 03:15 | 1d 10h | 2,056 | 15K |
| 4 | October 19, 2024 16:15 | October 20, 2024 00:30 | 8h 15m | 1,790 | 913 |
| 5 | January 5, 2024 06:00 | January 5, 2024 09:15 | 3h 15m | 1,575 | 4,908 |
| 6 | December 8, 2024 13:15 | December 8, 2024 21:30 | 8h 15m | 1,573 | 13K |
| 7 | September 22, 2024 23:15 | September 23, 2024 02:45 | 3h 30m | 1,490 | 2,486 |
| 8 | June 10, 2024 05:15 | June 10, 2024 08:45 | 3h 30m | 1,392 | 3,862 |
| 9 | March 16, 2024 20:15 | March 17, 2024 03:15 | 7h | 906 | 3,489 |
| 10 | April 28, 2024 09:30 | April 28, 2024 13:00 | 3h 30m | 895 | 2,581 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 42 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Bay County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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) | 2024 | 8.4 hrs | 1.32 | 2.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| DTE Electric Company | 2024 | 8.0 hrs | 1.25 | 2.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| City of Bay City - (MI) | 2024 | 6.9 hrs | 2.13 | 48 min | 0.45 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 66,162 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. Bay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bay County, MI annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/michigan/bay-county