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2019 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 461st of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 1, 2019 16:15 | October 1, 2019 20:15 | 4h | 8,742 | 11K |
| 2 | October 16, 2019 10:00 | October 17, 2019 21:30 | 1d 11h | 3,960 | 40K |
| 3 | October 21, 2019 18:00 | October 23, 2019 01:30 | 1d 7h | 3,385 | 13K |
| 4 | September 21, 2019 19:45 | September 21, 2019 22:45 | 3h | 1,528 | 1,387 |
| 5 | July 11, 2019 00:45 | July 11, 2019 09:45 | 9h | 1,249 | 3,438 |
| 6 | November 21, 2019 12:00 | November 21, 2019 14:45 | 2h 45m | 891 | 1,403 |
| 7 | May 30, 2019 18:15 | May 30, 2019 19:30 | 1h 15m | 881 | 546 |
| 8 | February 24, 2019 17:30 | February 26, 2019 17:45 | 2d | 709 | 12K |
| 9 | April 29, 2019 14:30 | April 29, 2019 18:45 | 4h 15m | 513 | 1,435 |
| 10 | July 20, 2019 04:15 | July 21, 2019 19:45 | 1d 15h | 404 | 3,879 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 50 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 Benzie County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 96% of Michigan's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/michigan/benzie-county