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2017 Oconto County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Oconto County, WI went without power for an average of 8.3 hours, a total of 221K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 649th 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 Oconto 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 | June 11, 2017 16:45 | June 16, 2017 06:15 | 4d 13h | 5,788 | 158K |
| 2 | December 5, 2017 05:30 | December 6, 2017 01:15 | 19h 45m | 2,355 | 9,424 |
| 3 | March 7, 2017 11:00 | March 9, 2017 09:00 | 1d 22h | 2,326 | 30K |
| 4 | November 4, 2017 11:00 | November 4, 2017 22:30 | 11h 30m | 1,524 | 3,005 |
| 5 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 18, 2017 12:00 | 17h 15m | 1,205 | 3,230 |
| 6 | April 8, 2017 20:15 | April 8, 2017 22:45 | 2h 30m | 1,062 | 1,329 |
| 7 | February 21, 2017 04:15 | February 21, 2017 07:45 | 3h 30m | 917 | 2,650 |
| 8 | March 20, 2017 15:30 | March 20, 2017 16:45 | 1h 15m | 755 | 189 |
| 9 | March 20, 2017 17:45 | March 20, 2017 18:45 | 1h | 755 | 755 |
| 10 | December 18, 2017 07:00 | December 18, 2017 07:15 | 15m | 673 | 168 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 25 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Oconto 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 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.50 | 1.6 hrs | 0.80 |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oconto Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oconto Falls Water & Light Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,761 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. Oconto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oconto 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/oconto-county