Power outages in St. Joseph County, MI

Live outage counts for Sturgis, Three Rivers and Constantine and the rest of St. Joseph County, updated every 10 minutes from Indiana Michigan Power and Consumers Energy.

Right now

No outages reported
iNormal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.
0customers without power
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
0.00% of 12,294 customersUpdated 7 min ago
iWe check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.
Consumers Energyno county count
iThis utility publishes outage totals for its whole service area, but doesn't break them down by county.
Serves part of this county but only publishes totals for its whole area.
Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI)no live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.
City of Sturgis - (MI)no live feed
iThis utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.
Also serves this county, per federal utility records
iFrom EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.
. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

Outage locations not published
County outlineIndiana Michigan Power and Consumers Energy publish totals only, not outage locations.
iSome utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Outages by ZIP code

0 of 6 ZIP codes have outages
ZIPAreaOutCustomers
iA customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.
% out
iCustomers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
49032Centreville0320.00%
49042Constantine01,6800.00%
49072Mendon0160.00%
49091Sturgis01,0300.00%
49093Three Rivers07,5330.00%
49099White Pigeon02,1060.00%

Outage history in St. Joseph County

2014–2025 record

St. Joseph County averaged 41.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most Michigan counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 38. Half were over within 2.5 hours; the longest lasted 5.2 days, starting March 30, 2025.

The largest on record began August 11, 2021, with 13,700 customers out at once.

41.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
iAt least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.
2.5 hourstypical (median) length
iHalf of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.
7.8 dayslongest on record (August 2021)
13,700most customers out at once
Largest events (start)Peak outLasted
iHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.
Customer-hours
iCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
August 11, 202113,7007.8 days1,018,045
March 30, 20257,0345.2 days295,294
November 1, 20166,6064 hours20,926
May 15, 20256,1422.5 days133,369
June 14, 20225,7763 days175,920

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

iFrom EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

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Generators, heat and cold

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