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2024 Berrien County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Berrien County, MI went without power for an average of 47.9 hours, a total of 613K customer-hours (Michigan average 8.5 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 213th 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 Berrien 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 | July 14, 2024 02:00 | July 18, 2024 03:00 | 4d 1h | 8,086 | 103K |
| 2 | August 28, 2024 00:45 | August 31, 2024 04:15 | 3d 3h | 7,532 | 143K |
| 3 | December 4, 2024 22:30 | December 6, 2024 02:45 | 1d 4h | 7,243 | 83K |
| 4 | September 4, 2024 12:30 | September 5, 2024 03:15 | 14h 45m | 5,039 | 4,406 |
| 5 | December 13, 2024 09:00 | December 13, 2024 12:45 | 3h 45m | 3,737 | 1,007 |
| 6 | September 28, 2024 10:30 | September 28, 2024 12:30 | 2h | 3,023 | 2,109 |
| 7 | December 12, 2024 06:45 | December 12, 2024 11:45 | 5h | 2,838 | 2,775 |
| 8 | July 9, 2024 12:00 | July 11, 2024 16:45 | 2d 4h | 2,515 | 15K |
| 9 | August 17, 2024 00:30 | August 18, 2024 05:00 | 1d 4h | 2,450 | 11K |
| 10 | May 19, 2024 16:30 | May 21, 2024 06:15 | 1d 13h | 2,421 | 3,955 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 154 reached 100+ customers, 32 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 Berrien 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana Michigan Power Co | 2024 | 4.3 hrs | 1.25 | 2.5 hrs | 1.08 |
| Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co | 2024 | 8.9 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 0.97 |
| Midwest Energy Cooperative - (MI) | 2024 | 7.2 hrs | 1.60 | 4.6 hrs | 1.30 |
| 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 n/a of Michigan's customers in 2024; 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, 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/berrien-county