– 0% of St. Joseph out 0 customers out in Michigan

Power outage history

St. Joseph County Michigan

22hours

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

21st most of 83 in Michigan 3.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Aug 12, 2021 70% of customers out · 90% back in 5.3 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 22h / yr State average 13 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 4.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 7.8days Aug 10, 2021, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 79% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2021 2.8 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 19,440 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 St. Joseph'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 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

St. Joseph, hours without power per customer

St. JosephUS median countyMichigan average

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 10, 2021	Thunderstorms	13,700	70%	7.8 d	5.3 d	1.0M
Mar 30, 2025	Thunderstorms	7,034	36%	4.9 d	2.9 d	294k
Jun 13, 2022	Thunderstorms	5,776	30%	3.0 d	41 h	176k
May 15, 2025	Thunderstorms	6,142	32%	2.2 d	32 h	133k
Jun 9, 2020	Thunderstorms	1,892	10%	4.9 d	4.0 d	115k
May 7, 2024	Thunderstorms	4,750	24%	2.1 d	26 h	109k
Mar 3, 2023	Winter storm	4,434	23%	26 h	18 h	60k
May 23, 2019	Thunderstorms	3,823	20%	41 h	20 h	57k
Jul 26, 2023	Thunderstorms	2,853	15%	46 h	40 h	45k
Aug 6, 2018	Thunderstorms	1,986	10%	23 h	22 h	37k
Jul 15, 2024	Thunderstorms	4,316	22%	26 h	17 h	37k
Jun 25, 2024	No storm report	4,020	21%	19 h	12 h	34k
Jun 20, 2021	Thunderstorms	1,790	9%	35 h	26 h	32k
Feb 22, 2023	Winter storm	1,438	7%	2.2 d	2.0 h	30k
Sep 7, 2021	Thunderstorms	3,504	18%	13 h	7.2 h	27k
Jul 5, 2022	No storm report	2,614	13%	13 h	4.8 h	26k
Aug 10, 2020	Thunderstorms	2,241	12%	19 h	17 h	24k
Oct 10, 2017	No storm report	2,579	13%	9.0 h	5.2 h	23k
Mar 8, 2017	Windstorm	918	5%	47 h	–	22k
Jan 2, 2021	Winter storm	1,835	9%	21 h	15 h	19k
Aug 24, 2023	No storm report	1,191	6%	42 h	42 h	19k
Aug 29, 2021	No storm report	1,703	9%	26 h	24 h	18k
Mar 14, 2015	No storm report	2,872	15%	6.8 h	3.8 h	18k
Nov 1, 2016	No storm report	6,606	34%	3.0 h	1.8 h	18k
Jun 16, 2024	Thunderstorms	1,481	8%	24 h	21 h	18k
Aug 29, 2022	Thunderstorms	2,319	12%	29 h	27 h	18k
Feb 12, 2019	Ice storm	2,237	12%	14 h	10 h	16k
Jan 12, 2024	Winter storm	1,834	9%	23 h	6.0 h	16k
Nov 5, 2022	No storm report	1,756	9%	26 h	16 h	15k
Sep 22, 2021	No storm report	2,245	12%	6.8 h	6.8 h	15k

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

Thunderstorms 73%
No storm on record 21%
Winter storm 4.3%
Tornadoes 0.8%
Ice storm 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving St. Joseph

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
City of Sturgis	Municipal	39	39	0.37	16.0	6.1k

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

Van Buren 25 h
St. Joseph (this county) 22 h
Kalamazoo 16 h
Branch 15 h
Cass 13 h
Calhoun 13 h
Elkhart, IN 9.0 h
LaGrange, IN 5.6 h

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 19,440 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 →