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2018 Florence County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Florence County, WI went without power for an average of 8.9 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 636th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Florence County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 4, 2018 19:30 | November 5, 2018 04:45 | 9h 15m | 950 | 3,062 |
| 2 | October 3, 2018 22:30 | October 4, 2018 21:30 | 23h | 796 | 7,352 |
| 3 | August 22, 2018 20:00 | August 22, 2018 22:00 | 2h | 742 | 745 |
| 4 | September 21, 2018 11:00 | September 22, 2018 16:30 | 1d 5h | 664 | 4,008 |
| 5 | June 17, 2018 23:15 | June 19, 2018 06:00 | 1d 6h | 533 | 3,211 |
| 6 | December 2, 2018 06:15 | December 2, 2018 10:00 | 3h 45m | 458 | 1,052 |
| 7 | October 5, 2018 09:30 | October 5, 2018 13:15 | 3h 45m | 266 | 828 |
| 8 | June 15, 2018 14:15 | June 15, 2018 21:00 | 6h 45m | 216 | 357 |
| 9 | October 19, 2018 21:15 | October 20, 2018 04:00 | 6h 45m | 207 | 439 |
| 10 | July 1, 2018 00:15 | July 1, 2018 07:00 | 6h 45m | 205 | 223 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 17 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 Florence County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.73 | 70 min | 0.59 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 1.8 hrs | 0.94 |
| Florence Utility Comm | 2018 | 45 min | 0.44 | 45 min | 0.44 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,842 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. Florence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Florence County, WI annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/wisconsin/florence-county