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2025 Benzie County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Benzie County, MI went without power for an average of 19.0 hours, a total of 182K customer-hours (Michigan average 12.9 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 373rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Benzie County, 2025
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 29, 2025 11:15 | December 31, 2025 22:30 | 2d 11h | 4,310 | 78K |
| 2 | March 20, 2025 02:15 | March 20, 2025 20:30 | 18h 15m | 4,281 | 39K |
| 3 | November 26, 2025 21:00 | November 27, 2025 23:45 | 1d 2h | 2,780 | 16K |
| 4 | April 2, 2025 16:30 | April 2, 2025 20:15 | 3h 45m | 1,968 | 2,550 |
| 5 | September 5, 2025 12:00 | September 5, 2025 18:15 | 6h 15m | 1,527 | 1,672 |
| 6 | March 20, 2025 23:30 | March 21, 2025 11:15 | 11h 45m | 1,503 | 4,241 |
| 7 | June 25, 2025 10:45 | June 25, 2025 17:30 | 6h 45m | 951 | 1,498 |
| 8 | October 1, 2025 11:15 | October 1, 2025 22:15 | 11h | 866 | 260 |
| 9 | February 6, 2025 21:45 | February 7, 2025 12:45 | 15h | 851 | 1,226 |
| 10 | April 29, 2025 04:15 | April 30, 2025 11:30 | 1d 7h | 566 | 7,639 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 36 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/michigan/benzie-county