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2024 Clare County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Clare County, MI went without power for an average of 33.7 hours, a total of 608K customer-hours (Michigan average 8.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 295th 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 Clare 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 09:45 | August 31, 2024 03:45 | 3d 18h | 16,316 | 404K |
| 2 | May 20, 2024 23:45 | May 21, 2024 23:30 | 23h 45m | 4,542 | 33K |
| 3 | April 7, 2024 04:00 | April 7, 2024 07:45 | 3h 45m | 3,808 | 14K |
| 4 | July 5, 2024 19:45 | July 7, 2024 02:15 | 1d 6h | 3,442 | 59K |
| 5 | February 28, 2024 09:45 | February 29, 2024 03:15 | 17h 30m | 1,914 | 6,276 |
| 6 | January 12, 2024 17:15 | January 16, 2024 01:00 | 3d 7h | 1,434 | 13K |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 19:45 | January 11, 2024 02:45 | 1d 7h | 1,386 | 6,889 |
| 8 | September 8, 2024 16:15 | September 8, 2024 18:00 | 1h 45m | 1,135 | 1,419 |
| 9 | July 12, 2024 02:15 | July 12, 2024 06:00 | 3h 45m | 1,109 | 2,486 |
| 10 | August 6, 2024 12:45 | August 7, 2024 03:00 | 14h 15m | 1,031 | 2,368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 61 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Clare 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 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2024 | 8.1 hrs | 2.83 | 4.3 hrs | 2.35 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | 2024 | 4.0 hrs | 1.00 | 1.8 hrs | 0.86 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/clare-county