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2015 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 25.2 hours, a total of 234K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 93rd 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 Vilas 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 | January 11, 2015 10:30 | January 26, 2015 16:15 | 15d 5h | 5,438 | 5,434 |
| 2 | October 30, 2015 18:15 | October 30, 2015 19:00 | 45m | 5,273 | 3,955 |
| 3 | March 8, 2015 07:00 | March 18, 2015 18:00 | 10d 11h | 5,015 | 5,791 |
| 4 | December 2, 2015 14:30 | December 2, 2015 17:45 | 3h 15m | 4,606 | 1,161 |
| 5 | August 12, 2015 15:45 | August 12, 2015 17:00 | 1h 15m | 3,700 | 926 |
| 6 | June 22, 2015 13:45 | June 23, 2015 18:15 | 1d 4h | 3,442 | 20K |
| 7 | January 26, 2015 18:15 | January 27, 2015 15:15 | 21h | 3,359 | 1,800 |
| 8 | January 27, 2015 16:00 | March 8, 2015 06:00 | 39d 14h | 3,359 | 16K |
| 9 | April 2, 2015 12:30 | April 19, 2015 06:15 | 16d 17h | 3,149 | 14K |
| 10 | June 7, 2015 02:15 | June 7, 2015 22:15 | 20h | 3,012 | 54K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 82 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Vilas 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eagle River - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,284 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. Vilas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vilas 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/vilas-county