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2017 Rusk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rusk County, WI went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1481st 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 Rusk 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 | May 16, 2017 23:15 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 18h 15m | 834 | 12K |
| 2 | August 22, 2017 13:00 | August 22, 2017 19:45 | 6h 45m | 595 | 304 |
| 3 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 19, 2017 01:30 | 1d 6h | 565 | 9,533 |
| 4 | June 11, 2017 14:45 | June 12, 2017 18:00 | 1d 3h | 131 | 2,022 |
| 5 | April 25, 2017 02:45 | April 25, 2017 08:00 | 5h 15m | 85 | 394 |
| 6 | June 10, 2017 17:45 | June 10, 2017 22:30 | 4h 45m | 74 | 266 |
| 7 | August 8, 2017 14:45 | August 8, 2017 20:45 | 6h | 73 | 45 |
| 8 | July 12, 2017 09:15 | July 12, 2017 15:45 | 6h 30m | 37 | 106 |
| 9 | April 19, 2017 01:15 | April 19, 2017 04:15 | 3h | 35 | 72 |
| 10 | October 30, 2017 20:15 | October 30, 2017 21:30 | 1h 15m | 33 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 4 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 Rusk 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2017 | 11.4 hrs | 2.97 | 63 min | 1.17 |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co 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 ÷ 10,344 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county