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2016 Oconto County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Oconto County, WI went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 103K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 817th 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 Oconto 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 10, 2016 23:00 | June 12, 2016 09:45 | 1d 10h | 7,396 | 55K |
| 2 | September 25, 2016 21:30 | September 25, 2016 23:15 | 1h 45m | 4,193 | 2,183 |
| 3 | January 14, 2016 12:00 | January 14, 2016 13:45 | 1h 45m | 2,165 | 3,789 |
| 4 | July 21, 2016 11:45 | July 22, 2016 00:15 | 12h 30m | 1,999 | 5,494 |
| 5 | March 5, 2016 07:45 | March 5, 2016 08:00 | 15m | 1,533 | 383 |
| 6 | February 2, 2016 21:00 | February 2, 2016 23:45 | 2h 45m | 1,138 | 2,057 |
| 7 | November 18, 2016 23:00 | November 20, 2016 05:45 | 1d 6h | 955 | 4,530 |
| 8 | September 9, 2016 04:00 | September 9, 2016 13:00 | 9h | 919 | 3,046 |
| 9 | May 28, 2016 16:00 | May 28, 2016 17:45 | 1h 45m | 918 | 1,607 |
| 10 | September 12, 2016 14:30 | September 12, 2016 14:45 | 15m | 713 | 178 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 39 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Oconto 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 |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oconto Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oconto Falls Water & Light 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 ÷ 26,761 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. Oconto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oconto 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/oconto-county