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2016 Florence County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Florence County, WI went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 554th 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 Florence 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 | December 26, 2016 18:30 | December 27, 2016 08:00 | 13h 30m | 815 | 4,108 |
| 2 | July 12, 2016 08:00 | July 12, 2016 23:00 | 15h | 765 | 4,404 |
| 3 | November 14, 2016 18:00 | November 14, 2016 18:45 | 45m | 737 | 371 |
| 4 | November 28, 2016 09:15 | November 28, 2016 11:45 | 2h 30m | 586 | 1,284 |
| 5 | May 29, 2016 14:15 | May 29, 2016 17:30 | 3h 15m | 518 | 530 |
| 6 | September 25, 2016 21:00 | September 25, 2016 23:30 | 2h 30m | 370 | 925 |
| 7 | November 19, 2016 17:30 | November 20, 2016 03:15 | 9h 45m | 286 | 453 |
| 8 | July 21, 2016 11:30 | July 23, 2016 04:45 | 1d 17h | 230 | 3,805 |
| 9 | October 18, 2016 02:00 | October 18, 2016 03:30 | 1h 30m | 63 | 64 |
| 10 | June 10, 2016 23:00 | June 12, 2016 04:15 | 1d 5h | 59 | 603 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 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 Florence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2016 | 2.6 hrs | 0.82 | 1.7 hrs | 0.66 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 0.77 | 78 min | 0.59 |
| Florence Utility Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,842 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. Florence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Florence 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/florence-county