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2020 Berrien County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Berrien County, MI went without power for an average of 80.2 hours, a total of 1.0M customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 83 Michigan counties and 93rd 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 Berrien 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 | August 10, 2020 04:45 | August 16, 2020 03:45 | 5d 23h | 16,695 | 580K |
| 2 | June 27, 2020 01:15 | June 30, 2020 06:00 | 3d 4h | 6,093 | 114K |
| 3 | November 14, 2020 02:45 | November 18, 2020 01:15 | 3d 22h | 3,458 | 42K |
| 4 | June 9, 2020 12:30 | June 12, 2020 02:15 | 2d 13h | 3,044 | 54K |
| 5 | January 18, 2020 23:45 | January 19, 2020 16:30 | 16h 45m | 2,784 | 11K |
| 6 | July 16, 2020 02:15 | July 17, 2020 05:45 | 1d 3h | 2,664 | 6,356 |
| 7 | July 29, 2020 09:45 | July 30, 2020 00:30 | 14h 45m | 2,022 | 4,792 |
| 8 | November 10, 2020 20:45 | November 12, 2020 22:15 | 2d 1h | 1,898 | 6,662 |
| 9 | August 23, 2020 02:45 | August 23, 2020 12:30 | 9h 45m | 1,837 | 7,412 |
| 10 | May 23, 2020 11:30 | May 23, 2020 17:00 | 5h 30m | 1,539 | 5,400 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 113 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.27 | 3.3 hrs | 1.01 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2020 | 7.9 hrs | 1.26 | 2.3 hrs | 0.90 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2014 | 9.8 hrs | 2.23 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 |
| 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 95% of Michigan's customers in 2020; 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, 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/berrien-county