City of Marquette, MI
How often City of Marquette goes out
14.9 hours without electricity across 3.1 separate outages - City of Marquette's record for Michigan puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 33% more outage time than the Michigan state average of 11.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Marquette looks like
Outages here average 4.9 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 17,174 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at City of Marquette is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
How City of Marquette's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Marquette files with federal regulators every year - serving 17,174 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Michigan average instead of just this one utility? Michigan's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.