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2021 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 23.8 hours, a total of 227K customer-hours (Michigan average 26.6 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 358th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 16, 2021 05:45 | December 19, 2021 23:30 | 3d 17h | 4,936 | 139K |
| 2 | August 11, 2021 02:15 | August 13, 2021 09:00 | 2d 6h | 3,181 | 25K |
| 3 | June 3, 2021 14:15 | June 3, 2021 18:45 | 4h 30m | 1,820 | 2,327 |
| 4 | December 8, 2021 14:15 | December 8, 2021 19:45 | 5h 30m | 1,819 | 1,435 |
| 5 | August 1, 2021 14:30 | August 1, 2021 17:15 | 2h 45m | 1,392 | 2,482 |
| 6 | December 11, 2021 14:45 | December 13, 2021 02:15 | 1d 11h | 1,364 | 14K |
| 7 | August 10, 2021 00:30 | August 10, 2021 03:00 | 2h 30m | 839 | 1,285 |
| 8 | December 6, 2021 14:15 | December 7, 2021 10:15 | 20h | 826 | 7,735 |
| 9 | June 11, 2021 01:30 | June 11, 2021 09:00 | 7h 30m | 658 | 1,903 |
| 10 | November 21, 2021 22:00 | November 22, 2021 19:00 | 21h | 606 | 6,397 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 43 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2021, 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) | 2021 | 15.2 hrs | 1.60 | 3.8 hrs | 1.05 |
| Cherryland Electric Coop Inc | 2021 | 8.1 hrs | 1.36 | 66 min | 0.65 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/michigan/benzie-county