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2016 Berrien County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Berrien County, MI went without power for an average of 60.1 hours, a total of 770K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 80 Michigan counties and 41st 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 Berrien 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 21, 2016 00:00 | June 21, 2016 01:00 | 1h | 9,081 | 4,513 |
| 2 | June 20, 2016 11:00 | June 20, 2016 23:15 | 12h 15m | 9,053 | 33K |
| 3 | June 21, 2016 02:00 | June 21, 2016 02:15 | 15m | 8,889 | 2,222 |
| 4 | June 21, 2016 03:00 | June 21, 2016 03:15 | 15m | 6,729 | 1,682 |
| 5 | June 21, 2016 11:15 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 15h | 6,514 | 82K |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 19:15 | March 1, 2016 16:30 | 5d 21h | 6,474 | 83K |
| 7 | June 21, 2016 07:00 | June 21, 2016 09:15 | 2h 15m | 6,160 | 6,156 |
| 8 | June 21, 2016 05:00 | June 21, 2016 06:00 | 1h | 6,043 | 2,970 |
| 9 | June 21, 2016 04:00 | June 21, 2016 04:15 | 15m | 5,726 | 1,432 |
| 10 | April 8, 2016 20:15 | April 8, 2016 22:45 | 2h 30m | 4,326 | 7,570 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 140 reached 100+ customers, 41 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 Berrien 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2016 | 6.8 hrs | 1.48 | 4.4 hrs | 1.33 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Niles - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,805 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. Berrien County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berrien 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/berrien-county