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2021 Berrien County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Berrien County, MI went without power for an average of 94.8 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (Michigan average 26.6 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 87th 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 Berrien 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 | August 9, 2021 13:15 | August 14, 2021 00:15 | 4d 11h | 16,038 | 483K |
| 2 | June 19, 2021 08:30 | June 23, 2021 02:30 | 3d 18h | 7,988 | 115K |
| 3 | September 2, 2021 05:15 | September 2, 2021 22:30 | 17h 15m | 7,464 | 14K |
| 4 | October 11, 2021 13:30 | October 15, 2021 00:45 | 3d 11h | 6,478 | 94K |
| 5 | August 24, 2021 21:15 | August 27, 2021 03:30 | 2d 6h | 4,127 | 47K |
| 6 | December 11, 2021 00:00 | December 13, 2021 23:15 | 2d 23h | 4,021 | 50K |
| 7 | June 24, 2021 09:30 | June 28, 2021 04:30 | 3d 19h | 3,164 | 47K |
| 8 | July 7, 2021 13:00 | July 8, 2021 03:15 | 14h 15m | 2,996 | 13K |
| 9 | April 25, 2021 01:00 | April 25, 2021 08:30 | 7h 30m | 2,480 | 7,318 |
| 10 | November 21, 2021 13:15 | November 22, 2021 21:30 | 1d 8h | 2,423 | 7,859 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 121 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2021 | 11.2 hrs | 1.57 | 3.8 hrs | 1.09 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2021 | 8.8 hrs | 1.55 | 2.9 hrs | 1.06 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/berrien-county