Power outage history
Mecosta County Michigan
17hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
29th most of 83 in Michigan 2.6× 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 Mecosta'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 37 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Mecosta, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 26, 2025 | No storm report | 9,156 | 44% | 5.5 d | 41 h | 470k |
| Aug 10, 2021 | No storm report | 8,976 | 44% | 4.8 d | 12 h | 328k |
| Dec 1, 2019 | No storm report | 6,264 | 30% | 2.5 d | 2.0 d | 187k |
| Jul 20, 2019 | No storm report | 5,600 | 27% | 2.9 d | 2.6 d | 182k |
| Dec 24, 2015 | No storm report | 3,123 | 15% | 3.5 d | 3.1 d | 141k |
| Dec 16, 2021 | No storm report | 5,743 | 28% | 2.5 d | 47 h | 126k |
| Aug 28, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 4,551 | 22% | 2.4 d | 33 h | 101k |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 5,333 | 26% | 2.0 d | 35 h | 94k |
| Aug 27, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,210 | 20% | 42 h | 29 h | 74k |
| Mar 24, 2016 | Winter storm | 3,190 | 15% | 31 h | 16 h | 58k |
| Mar 25, 2023 | No storm report | 6,175 | 30% | 28 h | 17 h | 58k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 2,786 | 14% | 36 h | 30 h | 58k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 2,456 | 12% | 37 h | 16 h | 55k |
| Feb 27, 2023 | No storm report | 1,460 | 7% | 2.6 d | 2.4 d | 54k |
| Jun 10, 2020 | No storm report | 2,568 | 12% | 28 h | 3.0 h | 51k |
| Sep 7, 2021 | No storm report | 1,983 | 10% | 32 h | 27 h | 47k |
| Jan 9, 2024 | No storm report | 1,774 | 9% | 41 h | 13 h | 37k |
| May 20, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,853 | 19% | 23 h | 17 h | 37k |
| Dec 15, 2022 | No storm report | 2,989 | 14% | 18 h | 11 h | 28k |
| Jun 15, 2017 | No storm report | 1,747 | 8% | 16 h | 10 h | 28k |
| Dec 12, 2020 | No storm report | 1,920 | 9% | 31 h | 24 h | 26k |
| Aug 26, 2018 | No storm report | 2,874 | 14% | 31 h | 9.2 h | 25k |
| Apr 3, 2024 | No storm report | 1,984 | 10% | 12 h | 13 h | 23k |
| Feb 2, 2016 | No storm report | 2,205 | 11% | 11 h | 7.5 h | 22k |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,333 | 6% | 33 h | 13 h | 22k |
| Apr 14, 2022 | No storm report | 3,742 | 18% | 12 h | 9.8 h | 21k |
| Jun 3, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 2,112 | 10% | 20 h | 13 h | 18k |
| Jun 30, 2018 | No storm report | 1,114 | 5% | 21 h | 19 h | 18k |
| Mar 9, 2017 | No storm report | 2,650 | 13% | 9.5 h | 6.2 h | 17k |
| Oct 15, 2015 | No storm report | 2,875 | 14% | 8.0 h | 6.0 h | 14k |
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 Mecosta from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 84%
- Thunderstorms 14%
- Winter storm 1.5%
- Ice storm 0.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Mecosta
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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) | Cooperative | 1,153 | 119 | 1.82 | 18.3 | 23k |
| 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.
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 20,608 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 →