– 0 customers out in the US

December 2021 · 64th largest of 72

Windstorm

Dec 16, 2021. At the peak, 663,693 customers were without power, most of them in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa.

Windstorm
Customers out at the peak 663,693 Dec 16, 2021, 9:00 AM
Customer-hours lost 14M Every customer out, times every hour out
Counties with 10%+ out 200 of 359 counties affected
Above 600,000 out nationally 4.0 hours Dec 16, 2021, 7:00 AM onward
States affected 32 MI · WI · IA · KS · MO
Hardest-hit county 100%out Roscommon, MI · 13,780 customers

Hour by hour

The country, in the dark

Customers without power across the US, two days either side. The shaded band is the time the national total stayed above 600,000.

0 200k 400k 600k 800k Dec 14Dec 15Dec 16Dec 17Dec 18Dec 19 Peak 664k

By state

Where it hit

StatePeak outShareCounties 10%+
Michigan 262,022 10% 34
Wisconsin 225,744 9% 29
Iowa 178,444 14% 54
Kansas 110,885 13% 29
Missouri 72,602 13% 17
California 55,908 3% 2
Illinois 45,073 2% 6
Minnesota 36,197 7% 8
Colorado 27,485 7% 3
Florida 17,231 3% 1
New Jersey 12,426 5% 0
Nebraska 12,072 3% 3
Ohio 10,917 4% 1
Louisiana 7,574 6% 2
Texas 6,090 5% 3
Hawaii 5,488 6% 0
Indiana 5,428 3% 0
Rhode Island 4,615 2% 0
Georgia 4,195 2% 1
Virginia 3,392 2% 0

State peaks add each county's own peak, which may fall at different hours, so they can exceed the true simultaneous total.

By county

The hardest hit