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2017 Ashland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ashland County, WI went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 38K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 850th 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 Ashland 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 | December 20, 2017 03:00 | December 20, 2017 12:15 | 9h 15m | 3,474 | 20K |
| 2 | October 27, 2017 14:45 | October 29, 2017 02:15 | 1d 11h | 1,059 | 3,969 |
| 3 | August 9, 2017 02:00 | August 9, 2017 05:15 | 3h 15m | 946 | 3,065 |
| 4 | June 22, 2017 21:00 | June 22, 2017 22:00 | 1h | 942 | 483 |
| 5 | April 26, 2017 01:15 | April 26, 2017 01:30 | 15m | 538 | 135 |
| 6 | December 5, 2017 07:00 | December 5, 2017 17:15 | 10h 15m | 461 | 2,054 |
| 7 | May 17, 2017 22:00 | May 18, 2017 16:00 | 18h | 412 | 2,253 |
| 8 | August 4, 2017 01:45 | August 4, 2017 06:30 | 4h 45m | 373 | 1,578 |
| 9 | July 6, 2017 13:30 | July 6, 2017 20:00 | 6h 30m | 267 | 1,405 |
| 10 | April 4, 2017 01:00 | April 4, 2017 03:15 | 2h 15m | 204 | 378 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Ashland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2017 | 4.6 hrs | 1.14 | 1.9 hrs | 0.73 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,345 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. Ashland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ashland 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/ashland-county