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2015 Ashland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Ashland County, WI went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1018th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashland County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 17, 2015 06:15 | October 17, 2015 10:30 | 4h 15m | 2,983 | 9,260 |
| 2 | October 23, 2015 14:45 | October 23, 2015 15:15 | 30m | 1,090 | 410 |
| 3 | October 6, 2015 10:00 | October 6, 2015 14:00 | 4h | 828 | 880 |
| 4 | July 24, 2015 22:00 | July 25, 2015 00:45 | 2h 45m | 753 | 379 |
| 5 | December 14, 2015 17:00 | December 15, 2015 04:45 | 11h 45m | 370 | 1,058 |
| 6 | October 10, 2015 16:30 | October 10, 2015 18:45 | 2h 15m | 220 | 495 |
| 7 | October 12, 2015 22:45 | October 13, 2015 08:15 | 9h 30m | 201 | 1,816 |
| 8 | October 6, 2015 14:45 | October 6, 2015 16:45 | 2h | 171 | 306 |
| 9 | August 7, 2015 18:30 | August 7, 2015 23:15 | 4h 45m | 142 | 75 |
| 10 | December 24, 2015 08:30 | December 24, 2015 13:00 | 4h 30m | 108 | 179 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 10 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 Ashland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2015 | 2.4 hrs | 0.90 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Wisconsin's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,345 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. Ashland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ashland County, WI annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/wisconsin/ashland-county