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2015 Iron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Iron County, WI went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 8,785 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 671st 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 Iron 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 | June 5, 2015 13:15 | June 5, 2015 20:45 | 7h 30m | 2,227 | 4,390 |
| 2 | June 29, 2015 18:15 | June 29, 2015 19:45 | 1h 30m | 380 | 251 |
| 3 | August 29, 2015 18:15 | August 29, 2015 19:45 | 1h 30m | 337 | 481 |
| 4 | July 30, 2015 20:45 | July 31, 2015 06:15 | 9h 30m | 222 | 1,315 |
| 5 | July 29, 2015 19:15 | July 29, 2015 21:00 | 1h 45m | 186 | 308 |
| 6 | June 22, 2015 16:00 | June 22, 2015 18:00 | 2h | 154 | 265 |
| 7 | September 2, 2015 12:15 | September 2, 2015 14:00 | 1h 45m | 146 | 241 |
| 8 | December 14, 2015 18:00 | December 14, 2015 23:00 | 5h | 137 | 134 |
| 9 | August 26, 2015 20:45 | August 26, 2015 22:30 | 1h 45m | 97 | 75 |
| 10 | September 10, 2015 04:45 | September 10, 2015 06:00 | 1h 15m | 96 | 120 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 8 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Iron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 1.63 | 1.8 hrs | 1.38 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2015 | 2.4 hrs | 0.90 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.09 | 2.0 hrs | 0.91 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 2,123 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. Iron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron 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/iron-county