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2024 Houghton County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Houghton County, MI went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Michigan average 8.5 hours). That ranks 82nd worst of 83 Michigan counties and 2485th 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 Houghton 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 | September 6, 2024 12:15 | September 6, 2024 14:00 | 1h 45m | 1,465 | 735 |
| 2 | December 22, 2024 04:00 | December 22, 2024 13:30 | 9h 30m | 1,376 | 6,865 |
| 3 | April 1, 2024 10:30 | April 1, 2024 13:30 | 3h | 1,301 | 1,296 |
| 4 | May 22, 2024 11:15 | May 23, 2024 06:30 | 19h 15m | 970 | 4,189 |
| 5 | August 27, 2024 05:00 | August 27, 2024 19:45 | 14h 45m | 814 | 3,286 |
| 6 | November 21, 2024 12:15 | November 21, 2024 18:45 | 6h 30m | 803 | 1,224 |
| 7 | April 17, 2024 05:15 | April 17, 2024 15:15 | 10h | 688 | 6,446 |
| 8 | January 25, 2024 18:15 | January 25, 2024 22:30 | 4h 15m | 659 | 882 |
| 9 | April 4, 2024 03:30 | April 4, 2024 13:15 | 9h 45m | 620 | 5,890 |
| 10 | October 31, 2024 23:00 | November 1, 2024 02:30 | 3h 30m | 591 | 1,790 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 35 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | 2024 | 6.7 hrs | 1.65 | 3.1 hrs | 1.26 |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | 2024 | 18.0 hrs | 1.71 | 3.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/houghton-county