County annual report · FIPS 26019
2015 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.8 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 229th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 24, 2015 06:30 | December 26, 2015 22:00 | 2d 15h | 3,763 | 44K |
| 2 | March 29, 2015 17:30 | March 30, 2015 02:30 | 9h | 3,269 | 13K |
| 3 | October 24, 2015 11:15 | October 25, 2015 02:15 | 15h | 3,015 | 16K |
| 4 | August 19, 2015 07:45 | August 19, 2015 09:30 | 1h 45m | 1,885 | 2,355 |
| 5 | August 20, 2015 06:00 | August 20, 2015 17:00 | 11h | 1,883 | 538 |
| 6 | November 6, 2015 07:30 | November 7, 2015 02:45 | 19h 15m | 1,431 | 5,136 |
| 7 | August 2, 2015 20:15 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 1d 21h | 975 | 9,669 |
| 8 | December 9, 2015 16:30 | December 9, 2015 16:45 | 15m | 910 | 228 |
| 9 | November 18, 2015 15:45 | November 18, 2015 23:00 | 7h 15m | 878 | 4,025 |
| 10 | July 29, 2015 12:15 | July 29, 2015 18:15 | 6h | 876 | 674 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 38 reached 100+ customers, 6 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Benzie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2015 | 7.3 hrs | 1.18 | 3.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| Wolverine Power Supply Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cherryland Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Michigan's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,545 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Benzie County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Benzie County, MI annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/michigan/benzie-county