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2016 Ashland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ashland County, WI went without power for an average of 10.3 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 334th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashland County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 8, 2016 06:30 | July 8, 2016 10:45 | 4h 15m | 3,489 | 3,638 |
| 2 | July 21, 2016 09:45 | July 23, 2016 22:45 | 2d 13h | 3,479 | 52K |
| 3 | April 12, 2016 12:30 | April 12, 2016 14:00 | 1h 30m | 3,366 | 1,403 |
| 4 | May 7, 2016 00:15 | May 7, 2016 03:00 | 2h 45m | 836 | 2,177 |
| 5 | July 17, 2016 21:30 | July 18, 2016 03:00 | 5h 30m | 560 | 1,981 |
| 6 | August 4, 2016 00:45 | August 4, 2016 03:00 | 2h 15m | 364 | 713 |
| 7 | April 12, 2016 15:15 | April 12, 2016 16:00 | 45m | 308 | 84 |
| 8 | August 27, 2016 19:15 | August 28, 2016 08:30 | 13h 15m | 140 | 337 |
| 9 | January 13, 2016 19:45 | January 14, 2016 18:30 | 22h 45m | 93 | 292 |
| 10 | January 14, 2016 20:00 | January 15, 2016 00:15 | 4h 15m | 92 | 96 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 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 Ashland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 5.5 hrs | 1.71 | 3.2 hrs | 1.47 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,345 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. Ashland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ashland County, WI annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/wisconsin/ashland-county