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2022 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 14.5 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (Michigan average 10.5 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 83 Michigan counties and 471st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 5, 2022 21:00 | November 8, 2022 20:30 | 2d 23h | 2,404 | 50K |
| 2 | October 17, 2022 19:15 | October 20, 2022 22:30 | 3d 3h | 2,397 | 49K |
| 3 | June 16, 2022 17:15 | June 17, 2022 13:00 | 19h 45m | 1,582 | 3,586 |
| 4 | June 14, 2022 22:30 | June 15, 2022 01:30 | 3h | 1,006 | 1,395 |
| 5 | July 7, 2022 17:30 | July 7, 2022 19:30 | 2h | 962 | 848 |
| 6 | October 22, 2022 15:45 | October 23, 2022 05:30 | 13h 45m | 698 | 6,156 |
| 7 | May 26, 2022 22:00 | May 26, 2022 23:15 | 1h 15m | 681 | 738 |
| 8 | December 15, 2022 05:45 | December 16, 2022 06:00 | 1d | 551 | 4,422 |
| 9 | June 27, 2022 23:15 | June 28, 2022 01:30 | 2h 15m | 536 | 1,206 |
| 10 | July 24, 2022 17:00 | July 24, 2022 19:15 | 2h 15m | 529 | 1,190 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 37 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2022, 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) | 2022 | 7.8 hrs | 1.29 | 3.0 hrs | 0.96 |
| Cherryland Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 1.8 hrs | 1.02 | 70 min | 0.75 |
| 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 96% of Michigan's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/michigan/benzie-county