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2018 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 9.8 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.0 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 563rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 31, 2018 04:15 | May 31, 2018 13:45 | 9h 30m | 5,081 | 21K |
| 2 | October 4, 2018 03:45 | October 4, 2018 08:45 | 5h | 3,575 | 13K |
| 3 | May 27, 2018 12:15 | May 27, 2018 17:30 | 5h 15m | 3,565 | 15K |
| 4 | October 26, 2018 13:00 | October 26, 2018 18:00 | 5h | 1,886 | 5,855 |
| 5 | July 27, 2018 09:15 | July 27, 2018 13:30 | 4h 15m | 1,537 | 4,738 |
| 6 | June 18, 2018 03:30 | June 18, 2018 09:00 | 5h 30m | 1,491 | 2,625 |
| 7 | October 20, 2018 16:15 | October 22, 2018 02:30 | 1d 10h | 949 | 4,370 |
| 8 | August 28, 2018 04:15 | August 30, 2018 00:00 | 1d 19h | 920 | 16K |
| 9 | April 3, 2018 18:45 | April 3, 2018 19:45 | 1h | 730 | 370 |
| 10 | January 2, 2018 21:45 | January 2, 2018 22:30 | 45m | 616 | 194 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 20 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2018, 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) | 2018 | 6.8 hrs | 1.29 | 3.3 hrs | 1.02 |
| Cherryland Electric Coop Inc | 2018 | 3.4 hrs | 1.34 | 2.6 hrs | 1.20 |
| Wolverine Power Supply Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of Michigan's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/michigan/benzie-county