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2019 St. Joseph County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in St. Joseph County, MI went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 246K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.7 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 83 Michigan counties and 429th 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 St. Joseph 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 | May 22, 2019 20:30 | May 26, 2019 04:30 | 3d 8h | 3,823 | 59K |
| 2 | August 7, 2019 20:00 | August 8, 2019 03:00 | 7h | 3,788 | 8,540 |
| 3 | June 2, 2019 00:00 | June 2, 2019 23:15 | 23h 15m | 2,740 | 6,382 |
| 4 | April 26, 2019 18:15 | April 27, 2019 01:00 | 6h 45m | 2,656 | 15K |
| 5 | October 21, 2019 15:45 | October 23, 2019 02:15 | 1d 10h | 2,334 | 9,548 |
| 6 | February 12, 2019 09:30 | February 14, 2019 13:45 | 2d 4h | 2,237 | 19K |
| 7 | March 2, 2019 15:30 | March 2, 2019 19:45 | 4h 15m | 2,216 | 7,492 |
| 8 | June 27, 2019 20:15 | June 28, 2019 06:45 | 10h 30m | 1,478 | 2,620 |
| 9 | January 7, 2019 16:45 | January 7, 2019 20:00 | 3h 15m | 1,438 | 1,807 |
| 10 | August 18, 2019 01:00 | August 19, 2019 19:15 | 1d 18h | 1,391 | 8,903 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 80 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 St. Joseph 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 |
| 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 |
| City of Sturgis - (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 ÷ 19,440 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. St. Joseph County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), St. Joseph 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/st-joseph-county