Power outage history
Kalamazoo County Michigan
16hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
33rd most of 83 in Michigan 2.5× 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 Kalamazoo's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 35 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Kalamazoo, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2023 | Ice storm | 49,639 | 51% | 5.2 d | 3.3 d | 3.0M |
| May 15, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 51,658 | 54% | 3.9 d | 2.9 d | 2.6M |
| May 7, 2024 | Tornadoes | 20,747 | 22% | 48 h | 29 h | 503k |
| Aug 29, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 19,459 | 20% | 2.2 d | 38 h | 470k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 11,271 | 12% | 3.2 d | 3.0 d | 394k |
| Jun 16, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 20,812 | 22% | 39 h | 32 h | 372k |
| Sep 7, 2021 | No storm report | 16,738 | 17% | 30 h | 24 h | 283k |
| Aug 3, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 16,119 | 17% | 38 h | 30 h | 268k |
| Jun 9, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 14,026 | 15% | 43 h | 17 h | 238k |
| Aug 10, 2021 | No storm report | 8,887 | 9% | 20 h | 15 h | 148k |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Windstorm | 7,961 | 8% | 47 h | 22 h | 143k |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 13,824 | 14% | 27 h | 13 h | 142k |
| Jul 20, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,786 | 5% | 46 h | – | 118k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 3,782 | 4% | 40 h | – | 104k |
| Feb 24, 2019 | Windstorm | 7,228 | 8% | 34 h | 27 h | 95k |
| Aug 12, 2021 | No storm report | 4,499 | 5% | 35 h | – | 91k |
| Aug 10, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,404 | 7% | 21 h | 22 h | 86k |
| Jan 13, 2019 | No storm report | 10,141 | 11% | 13 h | 9.5 h | 84k |
| Nov 13, 2021 | No storm report | 6,577 | 7% | 18 h | 10 h | 69k |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Winter storm | 4,946 | 5% | 19 h | 14 h | 68k |
| Aug 2, 2021 | No storm report | 6,829 | 7% | 9.2 h | 9.2 h | 58k |
| Apr 12, 2024 | No storm report | 5,766 | 6% | 19 h | 17 h | 58k |
| Aug 18, 2019 | No storm report | 5,179 | 5% | 11 h | 1.2 h | 56k |
| Nov 15, 2020 | No storm report | 3,363 | 3% | 28 h | – | 56k |
| Jun 28, 2025 | No storm report | 11,843 | 12% | 13 h | 7.5 h | 54k |
| Jun 26, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,272 | 7% | 15 h | 12 h | 49k |
| Feb 19, 2016 | No storm report | 4,935 | 5% | 23 h | 21 h | 45k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | Windstorm | 6,950 | 7% | 18 h | 17 h | 45k |
| Jun 13, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 4,274 | 4% | 17 h | – | 45k |
| Mar 27, 2018 | No storm report | 7,703 | 8% | 5.8 h | 5.5 h | 44k |
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 Kalamazoo from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 44%
- Ice storm 28%
- No storm on record 21%
- Tornadoes 4.6%
- Windstorm 1.3%
- Winter storm 1.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Kalamazoo
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 |
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | Investor Owned | 932 | 142 | 1.83 | 17.2 | 113k |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative | Cooperative | 1,012 | 268 | 2.10 | 19.5 | 29k |
| Wolverine Power Supply Coop | Cooperative | – | – | – | – | – |
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
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 96,417 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 →