When will the power be back in Houghton County, MI?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Michigan
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customers reported out in Houghton County, MI
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
A small number of customers are reported out — too few for a meaningful county-wide restoration estimate.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 5:21 AM EDT.
12 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 3.7 days · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Ontonagon County Rural Electric Association — 2 customers reported out
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Who serves Houghton County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include We Energies and Michigan Electric Cooperatives ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Upper Peninsula Power Company also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Houghton County, MI
Last significant outage: Sep 15, 2026 — peaked at 632 customers, restored in ~5.3 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 26, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Houghton County, MI
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
219 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Michigan norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~18,348 customers out in November 2025, restored after about 1.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Houghton County include Hancock, Laurium, Lake Linden, South Range, Calumet, Copper City, Adams and Atlantic Mine. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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