County annual report · FIPS 55053
2016 Jackson County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Jackson County, WI went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,156 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 65th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 2243rd 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 Jackson 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 | May 31, 2016 21:15 | June 1, 2016 00:45 | 3h 30m | 374 | 494 |
| 2 | April 8, 2016 20:00 | April 8, 2016 20:45 | 45m | 275 | 81 |
| 3 | May 4, 2016 20:30 | May 4, 2016 23:15 | 2h 45m | 116 | 290 |
| 4 | May 5, 2016 02:30 | May 5, 2016 03:00 | 30m | 116 | 58 |
| 5 | May 6, 2016 12:45 | May 6, 2016 14:15 | 1h 30m | 39 | 59 |
| 6 | September 6, 2016 21:00 | September 6, 2016 21:15 | 15m | 37 | 9 |
| 7 | August 26, 2016 00:30 | August 26, 2016 01:45 | 1h 15m | 32 | 40 |
| 8 | April 27, 2016 17:30 | April 27, 2016 18:45 | 1h 15m | 20 | 25 |
| 9 | July 17, 2016 12:15 | July 17, 2016 14:15 | 2h | 8 | 6 |
| 10 | September 7, 2016 15:45 | September 7, 2016 17:45 | 2h | 7 | 14 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 4 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 Jackson 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 |
| Oakdale Electric Coop | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.28 | 79 min | 1.07 |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clark Electric Coop - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Black River Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Merrillan - (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 ÷ 14,991 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county