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2016 Bayfield County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bayfield County, WI went without power for an average of 12.8 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 265th 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 Bayfield 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 21, 2016 09:15 | July 22, 2016 20:45 | 1d 11h | 5,170 | 74K |
| 2 | April 25, 2016 20:00 | April 25, 2016 23:00 | 3h | 865 | 999 |
| 3 | July 22, 2016 22:00 | July 22, 2016 23:45 | 1h 45m | 324 | 536 |
| 4 | June 26, 2016 00:00 | June 26, 2016 18:45 | 18h 45m | 284 | 1,923 |
| 5 | April 14, 2016 22:45 | April 14, 2016 23:45 | 1h | 210 | 210 |
| 6 | June 5, 2016 19:30 | June 6, 2016 02:15 | 6h 45m | 181 | 931 |
| 7 | July 23, 2016 00:30 | July 23, 2016 21:15 | 20h 45m | 146 | 949 |
| 8 | July 13, 2016 03:00 | July 13, 2016 13:15 | 10h 15m | 145 | 1,015 |
| 9 | September 6, 2016 12:00 | September 6, 2016 12:45 | 45m | 110 | 83 |
| 10 | July 8, 2016 05:45 | July 8, 2016 08:15 | 2h 30m | 93 | 94 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 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 Bayfield 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 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,473 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. Bayfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bayfield 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/bayfield-county