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2020 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 16.2 hours, a total of 155K customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 511th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 18, 2020 14:45 | July 20, 2020 02:30 | 1d 11h | 3,043 | 27K |
| 2 | June 10, 2020 05:30 | June 13, 2020 03:00 | 2d 21h | 2,888 | 49K |
| 3 | April 28, 2020 13:30 | April 28, 2020 17:00 | 3h 30m | 2,267 | 4,537 |
| 4 | April 3, 2020 19:15 | April 4, 2020 18:15 | 23h | 1,919 | 10K |
| 5 | November 15, 2020 17:45 | November 17, 2020 17:00 | 1d 23h | 1,042 | 9,814 |
| 6 | August 26, 2020 01:30 | August 26, 2020 03:30 | 2h | 908 | 1,625 |
| 7 | July 23, 2020 15:00 | July 23, 2020 16:15 | 1h 15m | 895 | 1,119 |
| 8 | July 23, 2020 18:15 | July 23, 2020 18:30 | 15m | 895 | 224 |
| 9 | July 23, 2020 19:45 | July 23, 2020 20:00 | 15m | 895 | 224 |
| 10 | November 1, 2020 02:45 | November 3, 2020 02:15 | 1d 23h | 829 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 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 2020, 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) | 2020 | 8.5 hrs | 1.35 | 3.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| Cherryland Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 0.78 | 71 min | 0.62 |
| 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 95% of Michigan's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/michigan/benzie-county