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

Power outage history

Kalkaska County Michigan

9.3hours

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

60th most of 83 in Michigan 1.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 3, 2015 93% of customers out · 90% back in 2.3 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 9.3h / yr State average 13 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.1days Aug 2, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 43% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 26 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 10,279 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 Kalkaska'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 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Kalkaska, hours without power per customer

KalkaskaUS median countyMichigan average
0 20 40 60 48 ’15 2.5 ’16 3.3 ’17 4.2 ’18 5.3 ’19 5.5 ’20 26 ’21 7.6 ’22 3.5 ’23 5.2 ’24 18 ’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
Aug 2, 2015 Thunderstorms 9,531 93% 4.1 d 2.3 d 389k
Dec 16, 2021 Windstorm 5,760 56% 3.3 d 29 h 125k
Mar 29, 2025 No storm report 2,280 22% 2.9 d 2.3 d 70k
Aug 10, 2021 Thunderstorms 5,816 57% 47 h 18 h 68k
Dec 24, 2015 No storm report 3,464 34% 2.4 d 39 h 61k
Dec 29, 2025 Winter storm 3,867 38% 32 h 4.5 h 24k
Nov 26, 2025 Winter storm 509 5% 46 h – 16k
Nov 5, 2022 No storm report 874 9% 29 h 26 h 16k
Apr 8, 2021 No storm report 2,961 29% 17 h 4.2 h 16k
Mar 15, 2025 No storm report 4,133 40% 29 h 3.2 h 15k
Feb 24, 2019 Winter storm 916 9% 24 h 16 h 14k
Apr 2, 2024 No storm report 1,170 11% 23 h 20 h 12k

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 +10h 90% by +20h

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 Kalkaska from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 57%
  • Windstorm 19%
  • Thunderstorms 13%
  • Winter storm 10%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Kalkaska

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
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

Across Michigan

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Michigan 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 10,279 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 →