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2017 Adams County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Adams County, WI went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 49K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1524th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Adams County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 23, 2017 10:45 | October 23, 2017 12:45 | 2h | 1,426 | 2,737 |
| 2 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | July 7, 2017 22:15 | 10h 45m | 1,222 | 1,772 |
| 3 | July 11, 2017 17:30 | July 12, 2017 00:30 | 7h | 1,176 | 3,601 |
| 4 | May 18, 2017 01:15 | May 18, 2017 16:00 | 14h 45m | 1,094 | 4,916 |
| 5 | June 14, 2017 12:30 | June 15, 2017 01:00 | 12h 30m | 677 | 1,859 |
| 6 | June 3, 2017 10:30 | June 5, 2017 14:00 | 2d 3h | 596 | 20K |
| 7 | July 10, 2017 15:00 | July 10, 2017 17:00 | 2h | 591 | 592 |
| 8 | October 28, 2017 15:45 | October 28, 2017 20:15 | 4h 30m | 570 | 1,286 |
| 9 | May 14, 2017 19:30 | May 15, 2017 14:00 | 18h 30m | 544 | 737 |
| 10 | June 6, 2017 14:00 | June 6, 2017 20:30 | 6h 30m | 497 | 809 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 24 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 Adams County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adams-Columbia Electric Coop | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.20 | 2.4 hrs | 0.78 |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pioneer Power and Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wisconsin Dells Electric Util | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 20,787 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. Adams County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Adams County, WI annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/wisconsin/adams-county