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2024 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Michigan average 8.5 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1699th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 27, 2024 16:45 | April 28, 2024 02:15 | 9h 30m | 1,648 | 1,735 |
| 2 | January 11, 2024 16:15 | January 11, 2024 19:15 | 3h | 1,442 | 2,077 |
| 3 | October 30, 2024 10:15 | November 5, 2024 14:45 | 6d 4h | 876 | 2,111 |
| 4 | June 6, 2024 11:45 | June 6, 2024 14:30 | 2h 45m | 832 | 313 |
| 5 | January 25, 2024 14:45 | January 25, 2024 15:15 | 30m | 694 | 347 |
| 6 | May 25, 2024 06:30 | May 25, 2024 13:30 | 7h | 593 | 3,485 |
| 7 | March 15, 2024 14:30 | March 15, 2024 19:15 | 4h 45m | 587 | 2,174 |
| 8 | May 27, 2024 07:30 | May 27, 2024 12:45 | 5h 15m | 420 | 987 |
| 9 | June 21, 2024 12:00 | June 24, 2024 20:15 | 3d 8h | 403 | 2,314 |
| 10 | January 6, 2024 16:00 | January 6, 2024 23:30 | 7h 30m | 385 | 919 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 28 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2024, 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) | 2024 | 8.4 hrs | 1.32 | 2.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| Cherryland Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 65 min | 0.68 | 65 min | 0.68 |
| 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 n/a of Michigan's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/michigan/benzie-county