Power outage history
Midland County Michigan
10hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
57th most of 83 in Michigan 1.5× 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 Midland's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Midland, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 11,163 | 19% | 2.9 d | 2.1 d | 418k |
| Dec 1, 2019 | Ice storm | 13,745 | 24% | 2.7 d | 47 h | 417k |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Winter storm | 9,205 | 16% | 2.5 d | 33 h | 299k |
| May 19, 2020 | Flooding | 5,966 | 10% | 4.0 d | 4.0 d | 272k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | Windstorm | 6,848 | 12% | 2.8 d | 2.6 d | 242k |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 6,986 | 12% | 39 h | 34 h | 155k |
| Dec 24, 2015 | No storm report | 4,035 | 7% | 2.4 d | 46 h | 124k |
| Dec 26, 2025 | No storm report | 6,052 | 11% | 33 h | 17 h | 121k |
| Aug 11, 2021 | No storm report | 6,432 | 11% | 18 h | 2.8 h | 108k |
| Dec 9, 2023 | No storm report | 8,495 | 15% | 23 h | 21 h | 102k |
| May 15, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,217 | 6% | 2.0 d | 2.4 d | 83k |
| Mar 9, 2017 | No storm report | 4,837 | 8% | 21 h | 32 h | 72k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,336 | 4% | 2.3 d | – | 65k |
| Dec 28, 2025 | No storm report | 3,382 | 6% | 39 h | 18 h | 61k |
| May 4, 2018 | Windstorm | 3,228 | 6% | 35 h | 31 h | 60k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | Windstorm | 2,247 | 4% | 36 h | – | 59k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 2,494 | 4% | 46 h | – | 56k |
| Mar 10, 2017 | No storm report | 2,837 | 5% | 34 h | – | 55k |
| Aug 12, 2021 | No storm report | 4,971 | 9% | 30 h | 32 h | 54k |
| Mar 15, 2025 | No storm report | 2,480 | 4% | 38 h | – | 51k |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 6,238 | 11% | 22 h | 18 h | 51k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Winter storm | 3,000 | 5% | 35 h | 6.8 h | 47k |
| Feb 9, 2022 | No storm report | 8,445 | 15% | 7.8 h | 7.5 h | 44k |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,319 | 8% | 24 h | 19 h | 44k |
| May 26, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,179 | 4% | 26 h | – | 40k |
| Aug 29, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,014 | 5% | 17 h | 16 h | 38k |
| Sep 7, 2023 | No storm report | 2,044 | 4% | 34 h | – | 37k |
| Mar 31, 2022 | Windstorm | 6,939 | 12% | 12 h | 4.5 h | 35k |
| Aug 27, 2018 | No storm report | 5,852 | 10% | 12 h | 6.8 h | 29k |
| Jul 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,741 | 3% | 20 h | – | 28k |
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 Midland from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 35%
- Thunderstorms 25%
- Windstorm 12%
- Ice storm 11%
- Winter storm 9.4%
- Flooding 7.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Midland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DTE Electric Company | Investor Owned | 192 | 151 | 1.16 | 20.3 | 2.1M |
| Consumers Energy Co | Investor Owned | 820 | 164 | 1.40 | 20.7 | 1.7M |
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 57,350 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 →