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2016 St. Joseph County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in St. Joseph County, MI went without power for an average of 4.8 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 686th 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 St. Joseph 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 | November 1, 2016 13:45 | November 1, 2016 17:00 | 3h 15m | 6,606 | 18K |
| 2 | June 20, 2016 18:30 | June 20, 2016 23:15 | 4h 45m | 3,221 | 7,516 |
| 3 | June 21, 2016 00:00 | June 21, 2016 01:00 | 1h | 2,430 | 646 |
| 4 | June 21, 2016 02:00 | June 21, 2016 02:15 | 15m | 2,355 | 589 |
| 5 | February 1, 2016 01:00 | February 1, 2016 12:30 | 11h 30m | 1,445 | 10K |
| 6 | February 19, 2016 16:45 | February 22, 2016 04:30 | 2d 11h | 982 | 5,922 |
| 7 | July 21, 2016 18:30 | July 22, 2016 13:15 | 18h 45m | 954 | 3,557 |
| 8 | July 24, 2016 04:30 | July 25, 2016 04:45 | 1d | 921 | 3,682 |
| 9 | June 15, 2016 11:15 | June 15, 2016 18:30 | 7h 15m | 918 | 1,899 |
| 10 | August 31, 2016 04:15 | August 31, 2016 13:00 | 8h 45m | 905 | 1,930 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 46 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 St. Joseph 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 |
| 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 |
| City of Sturgis - (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 ÷ 19,440 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. St. Joseph County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Joseph 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/st-joseph-county