Power outage history
Menominee County Michigan
12hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
48th most of 83 in Michigan 1.9× 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 Menominee's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 43 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Menominee, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2024 | Winter storm | 9,199 | 76% | 4.8 d | 3.2 d | 492k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Ice storm | 5,371 | 44% | 3.1 d | 2.0 d | 176k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | Winter storm | 3,983 | 33% | 43 h | 29 h | 70k |
| Dec 28, 2025 | Winter storm | 3,456 | 29% | 37 h | 26 h | 64k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 2,199 | 18% | 2.2 d | 29 h | 44k |
| Jun 11, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,792 | 31% | 42 h | 26 h | 41k |
| Jul 19, 2019 | No storm report | 2,531 | 21% | 19 h | 10 h | 34k |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Windstorm | 1,808 | 15% | 34 h | 25 h | 22k |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,198 | 10% | 34 h | 22 h | 21k |
| Aug 3, 2020 | No storm report | 4,651 | 39% | 4.2 h | 2.2 h | 17k |
| May 4, 2018 | No storm report | 2,308 | 19% | 6.8 h | 13 h | 11k |
| Mar 7, 2017 | Windstorm | 1,304 | 11% | 27 h | 3.8 h | 9.5k |
| May 25, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,247 | 10% | 9.0 h | 7.0 h | 7.6k |
| May 1, 2023 | No storm report | 1,263 | 10% | 14 h | 7.8 h | 7.5k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 1,224 | 10% | 13 h | 7.0 h | 7.2k |
| Jul 18, 2017 | No storm report | 2,116 | 18% | 8.5 h | 1.5 h | 7.0k |
| Aug 2, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,001 | 8% | 9.5 h | 7.2 h | 6.4k |
| Dec 21, 2023 | No storm report | 2,430 | 20% | 2.8 h | 4.2 h | 5.9k |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Winter storm | 1,944 | 16% | 4.0 h | 48 min | 5.4k |
| Mar 11, 2021 | No storm report | 1,226 | 10% | 4.8 h | 2.5 h | 5.0k |
| Oct 13, 2024 | No storm report | 1,510 | 13% | 5.0 h | 3.0 h | 4.7k |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Windstorm | 954 | 8% | 9.5 h | 6.0 h | 4.6k |
| Feb 22, 2025 | No storm report | 562 | 5% | 7.8 h | – | 4.4k |
| Jan 10, 2023 | No storm report | 1,241 | 10% | 4.2 h | 3.0 h | 4.3k |
| Nov 26, 2025 | No storm report | 522 | 4% | 21 h | – | 4.1k |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Winter storm | 553 | 5% | 12 h | – | 3.8k |
| Jul 27, 2021 | No storm report | 272 | 2% | 15 h | – | 3.7k |
| Feb 24, 2021 | No storm report | 1,807 | 15% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 3.6k |
| Jul 21, 2019 | No storm report | 490 | 4% | 12 h | – | 3.6k |
| Sep 17, 2017 | No storm report | 2,702 | 22% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 3.4k |
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 Menominee from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 58%
- No storm on record 18%
- Ice storm 16%
- Thunderstorms 5.2%
- Windstorm 2.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Menominee
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Peninsula Power Company | Investor Owned | 446 | 190 | 2.20 | 28.0 | 48k |
| Upper Michigan Energy Resources Corp. | Investor Owned | 1,249 | 240 | 2.46 | 17.5 | 33k |
| Alger-Delta Coop Electric Assn | Cooperative | 1,152 | 257 | 3.07 | 23.2 | 9.8k |
| City of Stephenson | MI | – | – | – | – | 3.0k |
| Village of Daggett | MI | – | – | – | – | 1.1k |
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
- Marinette, WI 13 h
- Menominee (this county) 12 h
- Dickinson 8.7 h
- Marquette 4.7 h
- Delta 3.8 h
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 12,072 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 →