County annual report · FIPS 55041
2016 Forest County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Forest County, WI went without power for an average of 9.6 hours, a total of 61K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 367th 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 Forest 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 13:30 | December 27, 2016 08:00 | 18h 30m | 2,034 | 13K |
| 2 | February 15, 2016 16:30 | February 15, 2016 17:15 | 45m | 1,999 | 1,499 |
| 3 | November 14, 2016 18:00 | November 14, 2016 18:45 | 45m | 1,152 | 728 |
| 4 | November 19, 2016 08:30 | November 20, 2016 04:15 | 19h 45m | 1,114 | 8,523 |
| 5 | April 5, 2016 14:15 | April 5, 2016 16:45 | 2h 30m | 982 | 2,455 |
| 6 | March 8, 2016 22:00 | March 9, 2016 04:15 | 6h 15m | 866 | 2,557 |
| 7 | June 10, 2016 21:45 | June 12, 2016 04:00 | 1d 6h | 845 | 11K |
| 8 | August 4, 2016 18:00 | August 4, 2016 21:00 | 3h | 585 | 1,169 |
| 9 | July 12, 2016 07:45 | July 12, 2016 22:15 | 14h 30m | 513 | 3,863 |
| 10 | July 21, 2016 11:15 | July 22, 2016 23:00 | 1d 11h | 437 | 4,459 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 22 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 Forest 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 |
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 ÷ 6,340 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. Forest County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forest 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/forest-county