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2016 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 72.1 hours, a total of 669K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 32nd 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 Vilas 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 18:45 | June 13, 2016 10:00 | 2d 15h | 12,976 | 274K |
| 2 | July 21, 2016 10:45 | July 24, 2016 02:15 | 2d 15h | 12,501 | 194K |
| 3 | June 25, 2016 19:30 | June 27, 2016 11:15 | 1d 15h | 8,916 | 57K |
| 4 | November 24, 2016 13:45 | November 24, 2016 21:30 | 7h 45m | 6,183 | 12K |
| 5 | November 28, 2016 23:45 | November 29, 2016 02:30 | 2h 45m | 5,886 | 8,747 |
| 6 | December 9, 2016 17:00 | December 9, 2016 19:45 | 2h 45m | 5,886 | 8,830 |
| 7 | November 20, 2016 10:30 | November 20, 2016 16:30 | 6h | 5,855 | 6,273 |
| 8 | July 26, 2016 14:15 | July 28, 2016 06:00 | 1d 15h | 3,521 | 12K |
| 9 | July 12, 2016 07:30 | July 13, 2016 03:15 | 19h 45m | 2,452 | 16K |
| 10 | October 17, 2016 09:00 | October 17, 2016 19:30 | 10h 30m | 2,449 | 6,159 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 61 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Vilas 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 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2016 | 5.5 hrs | 1.71 | 3.2 hrs | 1.47 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 0.77 | 78 min | 0.59 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eagle River - (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 ÷ 9,284 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. Vilas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vilas 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/vilas-county