Power outage history
Baraga County Michigan
4.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
79th most of 83 in Michigan 35% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Baraga's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 6.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Baraga, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2023 | Winter storm | 748 | 16% | 2.4 d | 39 h | 23k |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Winter storm | 877 | 18% | 36 h | 8.5 h | 19k |
| Jul 19, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,689 | 35% | 23 h | 22 h | 14k |
| Mar 7, 2017 | No storm report | 1,005 | 21% | 23 h | 14 h | 10k |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 872 | 18% | 17 h | 14 h | 8.6k |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Wildfire | 492 | 10% | 11 h | 19 h | 5.4k |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Ice storm | 779 | 16% | 15 h | 5.0 h | 5.1k |
| Nov 2, 2021 | Winter storm | 951 | 20% | 7.8 h | 6.0 h | 4.9k |
| Dec 26, 2016 | Winter storm | 433 | 9% | 11 h | 10 h | 4.6k |
| Apr 10, 2017 | No storm report | 361 | 7% | 9.2 h | 5.8 h | 3.3k |
| Dec 26, 2019 | No storm report | 367 | 8% | 8.8 h | 2.5 h | 3.2k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Winter storm | 366 | 8% | 12 h | 5.5 h | 3.1k |
| Mar 17, 2016 | Winter storm | 408 | 8% | 17 h | 2.8 h | 3.1k |
| May 15, 2025 | No storm report | 609 | 13% | 6.0 h | 12 h | 2.9k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | Winter storm | 241 | 5% | 18 h | – | 2.8k |
| Jul 17, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 644 | 13% | 5.2 h | 14 h | 2.6k |
| Jul 13, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 724 | 15% | 7.0 h | 3.2 h | 2.4k |
| May 9, 2022 | Windstorm | 744 | 15% | 16 h | 2.2 h | 2.4k |
| Dec 5, 2017 | Winter storm | 362 | 8% | 6.5 h | 11 h | 2.4k |
| Nov 11, 2024 | No storm report | 402 | 8% | 9.2 h | 1.8 h | 2.3k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Winter storm | 399 | 8% | 7.8 h | 7.2 h | 2.2k |
| Jun 17, 2021 | No storm report | 620 | 13% | 3.5 h | 3.5 h | 2.2k |
| Oct 1, 2019 | No storm report | 397 | 8% | 5.2 h | 9.5 h | 2.1k |
| Feb 21, 2017 | No storm report | 361 | 7% | 5.5 h | 3.0 h | 2.0k |
| Oct 4, 2018 | No storm report | 366 | 8% | 5.0 h | 6.0 h | 1.8k |
| Jul 21, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 241 | 5% | 10 h | – | 1.8k |
| Nov 19, 2020 | No storm report | 366 | 8% | 5.8 h | 4.5 h | 1.8k |
| May 25, 2020 | No storm report | 471 | 10% | 6.0 h | 4.8 h | 1.8k |
| Oct 26, 2017 | No storm report | 301 | 6% | 7.2 h | 7.2 h | 1.8k |
| Dec 24, 2015 | Windstorm | 514 | 11% | 5.5 h | 48 min | 1.7k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Baraga from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 40%
- No storm on record 35%
- Thunderstorms 15%
- Ice storm 3.9%
- Wildfire 3.6%
- Windstorm 2.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Baraga
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Michigan territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | Investor Owned | 446 | 190 | 2.20 | 28.0 | 48k |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | Investor Owned | 1,249 | 240 | 2.46 | 17.5 | 33k |
| Ontonagon County R E A | MI | 1,041 | 442 | 3.13 | – | 19k |
| Village of L'Anse | Municipal | – | – | – | 18.2 | 1.3k |
| Village of Baraga | Municipal | – | – | – | 16.3 | 557 |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 4,824 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →