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2017 Jackson County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Jackson County, WI went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 3,906 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2439th 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 Jackson 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 30, 2017 23:30 | October 30, 2017 23:45 | 15m | 349 | 87 |
| 2 | June 12, 2017 21:30 | June 13, 2017 06:00 | 8h 30m | 297 | 1,660 |
| 3 | July 14, 2017 05:45 | July 14, 2017 08:30 | 2h 45m | 105 | 253 |
| 4 | May 17, 2017 23:15 | May 18, 2017 08:30 | 9h 15m | 98 | 821 |
| 5 | July 17, 2017 05:45 | July 17, 2017 08:00 | 2h 15m | 61 | 137 |
| 6 | May 17, 2017 03:30 | May 17, 2017 09:30 | 6h | 49 | 256 |
| 7 | September 4, 2017 22:15 | September 5, 2017 00:15 | 2h | 34 | 68 |
| 8 | July 10, 2017 03:45 | July 10, 2017 07:30 | 3h 45m | 24 | 37 |
| 9 | June 12, 2017 02:45 | June 12, 2017 10:30 | 7h 45m | 18 | 135 |
| 10 | July 20, 2017 08:00 | July 20, 2017 23:45 | 15h 45m | 17 | 131 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Jackson 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 |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.20 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Oakdale Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.3 hrs | 1.83 | 3.1 hrs | 1.47 |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clark Electric Coop - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Black River Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Merrillan - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 14,991 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county