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2017 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 63.2 hours, a total of 587K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 40th 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 Vilas 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 17:00 | June 14, 2017 07:45 | 2d 14h | 11,488 | 132K |
| 2 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 19, 2017 04:00 | 1d 9h | 9,119 | 68K |
| 3 | March 7, 2017 10:00 | March 9, 2017 23:30 | 2d 13h | 6,676 | 191K |
| 4 | May 3, 2017 12:45 | May 3, 2017 14:45 | 2h | 5,973 | 8,947 |
| 5 | April 6, 2017 16:00 | April 6, 2017 19:45 | 3h 45m | 5,926 | 4,456 |
| 6 | April 10, 2017 04:30 | April 12, 2017 10:45 | 2d 6h | 4,317 | 89K |
| 7 | June 10, 2017 17:15 | June 11, 2017 16:15 | 23h | 3,876 | 21K |
| 8 | October 1, 2017 00:45 | October 1, 2017 01:30 | 45m | 3,349 | 2,512 |
| 9 | October 5, 2017 19:45 | October 5, 2017 20:30 | 45m | 3,349 | 2,512 |
| 10 | November 6, 2017 15:30 | November 6, 2017 15:45 | 15m | 3,066 | 767 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 67 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Vilas 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eagle River - (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 ÷ 9,284 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. Vilas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vilas 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/vilas-county