When will the power be back in Kent County, MI?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Michigan
1,015
customers reported out in Kent County, MI
1 reported outage · county-wide data
County-wide restoration outlook: grew sharply just now — too soon to tell the trend
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 11:30 AM EDT.
1441,015 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 7 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
⚡ No power in Kent, MI? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Who serves Kent County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Consumers Energy, Great Lakes Energy Cooperative and DTE Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Lowell 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 — Kent County, MI
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 606 customers, restored in ~3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Kent County, MI
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,817 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 35 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~6 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Michigan norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~4.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~110,606 customers out in July 2017, restored after about 2.2 days. 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.
Cities we track in Kent County
Communities in Kent County include Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Kentwood, Walker, Grandville, East Grand Rapids, Rockford and Sparta. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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