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2015 Douglas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Douglas County, WI went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2130th 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 Douglas 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 13, 2015 14:30 | October 13, 2015 14:45 | 15m | 1,402 | 351 |
| 2 | October 13, 2015 15:30 | October 13, 2015 15:45 | 15m | 1,402 | 351 |
| 3 | October 13, 2015 17:00 | October 13, 2015 17:30 | 30m | 1,402 | 701 |
| 4 | March 27, 2015 18:45 | March 29, 2015 14:15 | 1d 19h | 951 | 1,431 |
| 5 | July 30, 2015 19:15 | August 3, 2015 13:00 | 3d 17h | 361 | 372 |
| 6 | July 13, 2015 04:00 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 5d 21h | 355 | 5,422 |
| 7 | February 4, 2015 17:30 | February 4, 2015 20:45 | 3h 15m | 232 | 738 |
| 8 | September 8, 2015 21:00 | September 8, 2015 21:15 | 15m | 199 | 50 |
| 9 | August 14, 2015 23:45 | August 15, 2015 01:00 | 1h 15m | 198 | 248 |
| 10 | May 2, 2015 15:15 | May 2, 2015 15:30 | 15m | 196 | 49 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 11 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Douglas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.17 |
| East Central Energy | 2015 | 84 min | 1.00 | 75 min | 0.96 |
| Superior Water and Light Co | 2015 | 1.6 hrs | 0.53 | 20 min | 0.21 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 29,088 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county