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2017 Iron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Iron County, WI went without power for an average of 12.8 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 419th 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 Iron 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 | April 26, 2017 08:30 | April 27, 2017 23:45 | 1d 15h | 1,012 | 8,963 |
| 2 | August 4, 2017 16:30 | August 4, 2017 21:00 | 4h 30m | 915 | 3,991 |
| 3 | October 28, 2017 10:00 | October 29, 2017 23:15 | 1d 13h | 798 | 6,045 |
| 4 | October 28, 2017 02:15 | October 28, 2017 07:15 | 5h | 376 | 871 |
| 5 | April 10, 2017 05:30 | April 10, 2017 13:00 | 7h 30m | 338 | 1,619 |
| 6 | September 20, 2017 11:30 | September 20, 2017 17:00 | 5h 30m | 285 | 241 |
| 7 | April 28, 2017 17:00 | April 28, 2017 22:30 | 5h 30m | 216 | 377 |
| 8 | December 5, 2017 05:15 | December 5, 2017 21:00 | 15h 45m | 191 | 1,240 |
| 9 | June 10, 2017 17:15 | June 12, 2017 00:00 | 1d 6h | 188 | 1,351 |
| 10 | October 23, 2017 08:00 | October 23, 2017 10:00 | 2h | 145 | 198 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Iron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 0.75 | 57 min | 0.51 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2017 | 4.6 hrs | 1.14 | 1.9 hrs | 0.73 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.50 | 1.6 hrs | 0.80 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, 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 ÷ 2,123 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. Iron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron 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/iron-county