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2017 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 6.7 hours, a total of 88K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 785th 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 Sawyer 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 14:00 | June 14, 2017 00:00 | 2d 10h | 2,914 | 76K |
| 2 | August 4, 2017 19:15 | August 4, 2017 19:30 | 15m | 1,428 | 357 |
| 3 | June 10, 2017 17:00 | June 11, 2017 05:30 | 12h 30m | 450 | 1,091 |
| 4 | June 8, 2017 09:45 | June 8, 2017 17:45 | 8h | 406 | 1,528 |
| 5 | September 4, 2017 20:00 | September 4, 2017 22:30 | 2h 30m | 402 | 1,005 |
| 6 | June 25, 2017 19:00 | June 26, 2017 00:30 | 5h 30m | 324 | 269 |
| 7 | September 22, 2017 13:45 | September 23, 2017 20:30 | 1d 6h | 295 | 1,068 |
| 8 | December 5, 2017 06:00 | December 5, 2017 18:00 | 12h | 216 | 1,086 |
| 9 | May 18, 2017 03:30 | May 18, 2017 07:45 | 4h 15m | 195 | 607 |
| 10 | May 1, 2017 18:00 | May 1, 2017 19:00 | 1h | 185 | 47 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Sawyer 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 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 13,024 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. Sawyer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sawyer 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/sawyer-county