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2016 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 110K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 414th 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 Sawyer 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 26, 2016 00:15 | June 27, 2016 11:15 | 1d 11h | 3,348 | 76K |
| 2 | July 21, 2016 09:45 | July 22, 2016 23:15 | 1d 13h | 1,381 | 17K |
| 3 | June 27, 2016 12:45 | June 28, 2016 01:30 | 12h 45m | 1,373 | 5,039 |
| 4 | August 27, 2016 00:45 | August 27, 2016 02:00 | 1h 15m | 1,349 | 1,449 |
| 5 | July 25, 2016 17:45 | July 25, 2016 19:15 | 1h 30m | 1,075 | 1,613 |
| 6 | July 20, 2016 21:15 | July 21, 2016 01:15 | 4h | 1,074 | 1,956 |
| 7 | September 2, 2016 00:45 | September 2, 2016 02:45 | 2h | 680 | 953 |
| 8 | June 29, 2016 18:15 | June 29, 2016 18:30 | 15m | 417 | 104 |
| 9 | June 5, 2016 19:15 | June 6, 2016 04:00 | 8h 45m | 326 | 1,089 |
| 10 | May 21, 2016 20:45 | May 21, 2016 22:15 | 1h 30m | 292 | 438 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 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 Sawyer 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2016 | 4.8 hrs | 1.59 | 2.7 hrs | 1.23 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 13,024 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. Sawyer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sawyer 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/sawyer-county