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2016 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1069th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 11, 2016 01:15 | June 11, 2016 13:45 | 12h 30m | 1,755 | 5,857 |
| 2 | July 10, 2016 10:00 | July 11, 2016 18:30 | 1d 8h | 1,472 | 9,825 |
| 3 | July 21, 2016 15:00 | July 21, 2016 18:45 | 3h 45m | 1,355 | 1,106 |
| 4 | March 16, 2016 05:30 | March 16, 2016 14:00 | 8h 30m | 1,185 | 3,124 |
| 5 | March 9, 2016 15:45 | March 9, 2016 19:00 | 3h 15m | 677 | 1,374 |
| 6 | August 1, 2016 13:45 | August 1, 2016 14:00 | 15m | 308 | 77 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 16:15 | July 28, 2016 20:30 | 4h 15m | 288 | 1,085 |
| 8 | January 9, 2016 01:45 | January 9, 2016 04:30 | 2h 45m | 286 | 535 |
| 9 | February 25, 2016 17:00 | February 25, 2016 20:15 | 3h 15m | 208 | 110 |
| 10 | May 18, 2016 15:30 | May 18, 2016 21:15 | 5h 45m | 208 | 1,142 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 12 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2016, 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) | 2016 | 4.7 hrs | 1.15 | 3.5 hrs | 1.01 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/michigan/benzie-county