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2015 Rusk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Rusk County, WI went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,670 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2149th 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 Rusk 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 22, 2015 15:45 | June 23, 2015 00:30 | 8h 45m | 613 | 824 |
| 2 | September 17, 2015 14:30 | September 17, 2015 16:15 | 1h 45m | 278 | 233 |
| 3 | July 29, 2015 15:00 | July 29, 2015 19:30 | 4h 30m | 210 | 652 |
| 4 | August 22, 2015 18:00 | August 22, 2015 20:30 | 2h 30m | 129 | 290 |
| 5 | November 19, 2015 01:45 | November 19, 2015 03:45 | 2h | 74 | 148 |
| 6 | May 20, 2015 19:00 | May 20, 2015 22:45 | 3h 45m | 72 | 97 |
| 7 | September 17, 2015 12:15 | September 17, 2015 13:45 | 1h 30m | 72 | 87 |
| 8 | October 31, 2015 02:30 | October 31, 2015 10:30 | 8h | 49 | 106 |
| 9 | September 29, 2015 12:30 | September 29, 2015 19:15 | 6h 45m | 48 | 206 |
| 10 | November 19, 2015 16:00 | November 19, 2015 22:00 | 6h | 48 | 86 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Rusk 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 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2015 | 2.0 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 1.06 |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 10,344 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county