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2017 Bayfield County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bayfield County, WI went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 888th 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 Bayfield 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 | August 9, 2017 02:00 | August 9, 2017 05:15 | 3h 15m | 3,351 | 8,018 |
| 2 | June 22, 2017 21:00 | June 22, 2017 22:00 | 1h | 1,862 | 941 |
| 3 | October 15, 2017 03:00 | October 15, 2017 13:30 | 10h 30m | 734 | 6,051 |
| 4 | October 4, 2017 14:00 | October 4, 2017 21:15 | 7h 15m | 732 | 1,788 |
| 5 | September 3, 2017 04:45 | September 3, 2017 17:15 | 12h 30m | 691 | 3,469 |
| 6 | September 4, 2017 03:30 | September 4, 2017 09:15 | 5h 45m | 691 | 1,776 |
| 7 | July 6, 2017 13:15 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 9h 30m | 641 | 2,504 |
| 8 | October 22, 2017 05:45 | October 22, 2017 09:00 | 3h 15m | 460 | 1,192 |
| 9 | September 24, 2017 00:15 | September 24, 2017 01:00 | 45m | 361 | 91 |
| 10 | April 26, 2017 11:00 | April 26, 2017 18:30 | 7h 30m | 342 | 1,870 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 21 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 Bayfield 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 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 6,473 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. Bayfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bayfield 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/bayfield-county