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2017 Berrien County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Berrien County, MI went without power for an average of 40.5 hours, a total of 518K customer-hours (Michigan average 6.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 80 Michigan counties and 112th 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 Berrien 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 | June 1, 2017 22:00 | June 2, 2017 04:15 | 6h 15m | 4,871 | 16K |
| 2 | July 12, 2017 05:45 | July 13, 2017 18:30 | 1d 12h | 4,608 | 32K |
| 3 | April 6, 2017 03:00 | April 8, 2017 19:30 | 2d 16h | 4,311 | 65K |
| 4 | January 10, 2017 14:45 | January 12, 2017 21:00 | 2d 6h | 3,081 | 50K |
| 5 | November 7, 2017 05:15 | November 7, 2017 12:15 | 7h | 2,742 | 14K |
| 6 | March 8, 2017 13:00 | March 10, 2017 03:00 | 1d 14h | 2,570 | 26K |
| 7 | August 3, 2017 12:45 | August 5, 2017 20:00 | 2d 7h | 2,471 | 6,157 |
| 8 | October 7, 2017 13:00 | October 9, 2017 23:30 | 2d 10h | 2,471 | 11K |
| 9 | October 14, 2017 11:30 | October 16, 2017 03:30 | 1d 16h | 2,309 | 13K |
| 10 | April 29, 2017 22:00 | May 1, 2017 05:15 | 1d 7h | 2,222 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 136 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.56 | 3.9 hrs | 1.36 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/berrien-county