City of Traverse City, MI
How often City of Traverse City goes out
Outages at City of Traverse City are uncommon. Michigan customers on this grid saw 0.8 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 40 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 94% less outage time than the Michigan state average of 11.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Traverse City looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 53 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 13,956 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Traverse City customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Traverse City's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Traverse City files with federal regulators every year - serving 13,956 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Michigan as a whole, across every utility that filed: Michigan's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.