County annual report · FIPS 26021
2019 Berrien County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Berrien County, MI went without power for an average of 53.5 hours, a total of 685K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 83 Michigan counties and 52nd 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 Berrien 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 21, 2019 12:30 | October 23, 2019 06:15 | 1d 17h | 14,443 | 95K |
| 2 | February 24, 2019 04:45 | February 27, 2019 02:15 | 2d 21h | 5,415 | 117K |
| 3 | February 12, 2019 03:45 | February 13, 2019 23:15 | 1d 19h | 4,453 | 42K |
| 4 | October 31, 2019 18:15 | November 1, 2019 22:00 | 1d 3h | 3,854 | 42K |
| 5 | July 2, 2019 08:15 | July 3, 2019 22:30 | 1d 14h | 3,727 | 15K |
| 6 | November 27, 2019 11:15 | November 28, 2019 23:45 | 1d 12h | 2,969 | 27K |
| 7 | August 6, 2019 12:15 | August 7, 2019 02:00 | 13h 45m | 2,964 | 14K |
| 8 | December 18, 2019 14:00 | December 18, 2019 20:45 | 6h 45m | 2,962 | 1,655 |
| 9 | September 17, 2019 19:45 | September 18, 2019 00:30 | 4h 45m | 2,805 | 4,286 |
| 10 | May 18, 2019 08:45 | May 20, 2019 11:30 | 2d 2h | 2,423 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 141 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Berrien 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2018 | 7.3 hrs | 1.53 | 4.1 hrs | 1.30 |
| 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 96% of Michigan's customers in 2019; 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, 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/berrien-county