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2016 Douglas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Douglas County, WI went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 9,064 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 2111th 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 Douglas 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 | August 18, 2016 18:15 | August 18, 2016 19:15 | 1h | 807 | 404 |
| 2 | June 24, 2016 15:00 | June 24, 2016 16:15 | 1h 15m | 636 | 795 |
| 3 | July 10, 2016 08:00 | July 10, 2016 15:30 | 7h 30m | 406 | 2,374 |
| 4 | June 20, 2016 02:00 | June 20, 2016 12:15 | 10h 15m | 359 | 1,844 |
| 5 | July 21, 2016 09:15 | July 22, 2016 03:00 | 17h 45m | 136 | 2,097 |
| 6 | October 16, 2016 14:00 | October 16, 2016 18:45 | 4h 45m | 80 | 380 |
| 7 | April 25, 2016 18:00 | April 25, 2016 18:45 | 45m | 68 | 51 |
| 8 | August 2, 2016 04:00 | August 2, 2016 07:00 | 3h | 44 | 123 |
| 9 | October 1, 2016 11:00 | October 1, 2016 16:30 | 5h 30m | 43 | 237 |
| 10 | April 12, 2016 07:15 | April 12, 2016 08:45 | 1h 30m | 35 | 44 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 5 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 Douglas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2016 | 23.9 hrs | 2.38 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 |
| East Central Energy | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 78 min | 1.00 |
| Superior Water and Light Co | 2016 | 48 min | 0.40 | 33 min | 0.37 |
| 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 ÷ 29,088 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county