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2017 Douglas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Douglas County, WI went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 8,137 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2424th 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 Douglas 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 | January 17, 2017 19:00 | January 17, 2017 20:00 | 1h | 854 | 652 |
| 2 | September 8, 2017 15:45 | September 8, 2017 19:00 | 3h 15m | 844 | 1,480 |
| 3 | July 3, 2017 14:30 | July 3, 2017 21:00 | 6h 30m | 607 | 3,652 |
| 4 | June 13, 2017 16:30 | June 13, 2017 17:00 | 30m | 457 | 136 |
| 5 | July 7, 2017 14:00 | July 7, 2017 15:00 | 1h | 128 | 128 |
| 6 | December 10, 2017 16:15 | December 10, 2017 17:30 | 1h 15m | 103 | 129 |
| 7 | January 14, 2017 19:15 | January 14, 2017 21:15 | 2h | 80 | 160 |
| 8 | March 4, 2017 12:45 | March 4, 2017 15:00 | 2h 15m | 80 | 180 |
| 9 | August 3, 2017 01:00 | August 3, 2017 02:45 | 1h 45m | 80 | 140 |
| 10 | October 28, 2017 08:30 | October 28, 2017 13:45 | 5h 15m | 73 | 372 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Douglas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.24 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| East Central Energy | 2017 | 56 min | 0.68 | 56 min | 0.68 |
| Superior Water and Light Co | 2017 | 65 min | 0.55 | 23 min | 0.32 |
| 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 ÷ 29,088 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county