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2016 Eau Claire County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Eau Claire County, WI went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 1862nd 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 Eau Claire 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 | June 11, 2016 02:30 | June 11, 2016 11:45 | 9h 15m | 5,557 | 27K |
| 2 | July 28, 2016 01:30 | July 28, 2016 08:30 | 7h | 2,226 | 2,802 |
| 3 | June 11, 2016 16:30 | June 12, 2016 12:15 | 19h 45m | 1,664 | 5,930 |
| 4 | July 24, 2016 15:45 | July 24, 2016 20:30 | 4h 45m | 1,098 | 1,544 |
| 5 | June 28, 2016 12:15 | June 28, 2016 13:15 | 1h | 763 | 470 |
| 6 | March 3, 2016 22:00 | March 4, 2016 19:15 | 21h 15m | 317 | 106 |
| 7 | June 26, 2016 13:15 | June 26, 2016 16:30 | 3h 15m | 261 | 453 |
| 8 | June 15, 2016 03:30 | June 15, 2016 07:15 | 3h 45m | 215 | 526 |
| 9 | July 28, 2016 09:45 | July 28, 2016 14:45 | 5h | 215 | 985 |
| 10 | July 29, 2016 11:30 | July 29, 2016 18:30 | 7h | 186 | 463 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 16 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 Eau Claire 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 |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 0.90 | 75 min | 0.70 |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 55,392 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. Eau Claire County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Eau Claire 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/eau-claire-county