Power Out Map
– 0% of Wexford out 0 customers out in Michigan

Power outage history

Wexford County Michigan

11hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

54th most of 83 in Michigan 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Dec 16, 2021 35% of customers out · 90% back in 2.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 13 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 8hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.8days Dec 24, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 51% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 22 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 21,518 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Wexford's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 22 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wexford, hours without power per customer

WexfordUS median countyMichigan average
0 5 10 15 20 25 21 ’15 1.2 ’16 3.2 ’17 15 ’18 7.0 ’19 9.8 ’20 22 ’21 8.8 ’22 3.4 ’23 5.4 ’24 13 ’25 MI 13 US 6.6

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
Dec 16, 2021 Windstorm 7,547 35% 3.1 d 2.4 d 298k
Aug 28, 2018 Thunderstorms 4,720 22% 3.3 d 2.1 d 231k
Aug 2, 2015 Thunderstorms 6,648 31% 45 h 25 h 183k
Dec 24, 2015 Windstorm 5,300 25% 3.8 d 2.3 d 182k
Dec 28, 2025 Winter storm 4,090 19% 2.8 d 33 h 99k
Aug 10, 2021 No storm report 4,741 22% 20 h 11 h 73k
Jun 10, 2020 Tropical Storm Cristobal 3,449 16% 43 h 38 h 64k
Jun 16, 2022 No storm report 3,321 15% 33 h 27 h 54k
Nov 5, 2022 No storm report 2,240 10% 2.1 d 6.0 h 51k
Aug 27, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,372 11% 47 h 22 h 38k
Apr 20, 2020 No storm report 4,903 23% 7.5 h 3.8 h 36k
Dec 12, 2020 Winter storm 1,463 7% 31 h 25 h 30k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +12h 90% by +30h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Wexford from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 50%
  • Thunderstorms 20%
  • Windstorm 18%
  • Winter storm 8.1%
  • Tropical storm 3.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wexford

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
Consumers Energy Co Investor Owned 820 164 1.40 20.7 1.7M
Great Lakes Energy Coop Cooperative 4,401 315 4.09 20.3 123k
Cherryland Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 100 68 0.87 17.3 36k

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.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Michigan

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 21,518 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 →