Berrien County, Michigan Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Berrien County, Michigan had 72 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.90 times the US outage time per person and 0.84 times the Michigan rate. It ranks 45 of 81 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

8.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 10, 2020, reached 16,695 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	686,588	123	6
2016	673,030	141	12
2017	439,983	177	7
2018	1,004,548	173	9
2019	590,722	143	9
2020	941,798	109	5
2021	1,125,244	129	11
2022	568,091	109	9
2023	358,190	130	4

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 10, 2020	71.2	16,695	570,342
Aug 10, 2021	68.5	16,038	482,019
Oct 20, 2018	92.0	14,493	464,382
Dec 28, 2015	54.0	12,148	279,932
Nov 26, 2018	37.0	14,689	181,822

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.