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2015 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1192nd 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 Sawyer 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 | May 29, 2015 05:00 | May 29, 2015 09:15 | 4h 15m | 2,504 | 7,706 |
| 2 | June 22, 2015 15:15 | June 23, 2015 05:45 | 14h 30m | 1,742 | 4,779 |
| 3 | May 18, 2015 00:30 | May 18, 2015 06:15 | 5h 45m | 1,424 | 2,083 |
| 4 | October 28, 2015 22:00 | October 29, 2015 02:45 | 4h 45m | 1,027 | 4,365 |
| 5 | July 13, 2015 04:45 | July 13, 2015 06:00 | 1h 15m | 686 | 858 |
| 6 | August 6, 2015 00:45 | August 6, 2015 03:00 | 2h 15m | 683 | 1,124 |
| 7 | June 20, 2015 12:30 | June 20, 2015 15:00 | 2h 30m | 603 | 1,058 |
| 8 | October 6, 2015 17:30 | October 6, 2015 20:15 | 2h 45m | 483 | 859 |
| 9 | June 25, 2015 02:00 | June 25, 2015 03:45 | 1h 45m | 395 | 303 |
| 10 | August 23, 2015 15:30 | August 23, 2015 18:30 | 3h | 292 | 454 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Sawyer 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 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jump River 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 ÷ 13,024 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. Sawyer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sawyer 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/sawyer-county