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2024 Iron County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Iron County, MI went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Michigan average 8.5 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1884th 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 Iron 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 | November 11, 2024 11:00 | November 12, 2024 05:45 | 18h 45m | 1,619 | 6,177 |
| 2 | May 31, 2024 15:15 | May 31, 2024 19:00 | 3h 45m | 417 | 1,535 |
| 3 | October 30, 2024 10:15 | October 30, 2024 13:45 | 3h 30m | 341 | 917 |
| 4 | August 27, 2024 05:30 | August 28, 2024 00:00 | 18h 30m | 282 | 2,366 |
| 5 | June 25, 2024 06:00 | June 25, 2024 17:45 | 11h 45m | 228 | 498 |
| 6 | February 11, 2024 04:45 | February 11, 2024 10:15 | 5h 30m | 222 | 447 |
| 7 | January 10, 2024 06:30 | January 10, 2024 08:00 | 1h 30m | 221 | 325 |
| 8 | October 6, 2024 02:30 | October 6, 2024 07:45 | 5h 15m | 161 | 475 |
| 9 | February 15, 2024 07:15 | February 15, 2024 09:45 | 2h 30m | 150 | 371 |
| 10 | May 25, 2024 00:15 | May 25, 2024 04:00 | 3h 45m | 148 | 437 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 16 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Iron 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 |
| City of Crystal Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,890 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. Iron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron 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/iron-county