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2017 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 12.1 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.0 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 450th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | July 8, 2017 00:00 | 12h 30m | 10,566 | 37K |
| 2 | May 24, 2017 05:30 | May 24, 2017 12:30 | 7h | 9,145 | 28K |
| 3 | November 27, 2017 13:30 | November 27, 2017 22:30 | 9h | 3,847 | 4,982 |
| 4 | June 3, 2017 08:45 | June 3, 2017 09:15 | 30m | 2,925 | 1,290 |
| 5 | December 5, 2017 04:30 | December 6, 2017 19:45 | 1d 15h | 2,233 | 16K |
| 6 | May 27, 2017 17:45 | May 28, 2017 00:15 | 6h 30m | 1,871 | 3,280 |
| 7 | June 3, 2017 06:30 | June 3, 2017 08:00 | 1h 30m | 1,793 | 2,242 |
| 8 | March 13, 2017 20:30 | March 13, 2017 20:45 | 15m | 1,602 | 401 |
| 9 | March 23, 2017 16:30 | March 23, 2017 17:15 | 45m | 1,017 | 486 |
| 10 | April 12, 2017 13:30 | April 12, 2017 14:30 | 1h | 873 | 655 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 38 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2017, 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) | 2017 | 10.1 hrs | 1.31 | 2.7 hrs | 0.89 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/michigan/benzie-county