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2018 Jackson County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Jackson County, WI went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 8,524 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2477th 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 Jackson 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 | September 10, 2018 09:30 | September 10, 2018 14:30 | 5h | 353 | 1,705 |
| 2 | March 5, 2018 19:00 | March 6, 2018 00:15 | 5h 15m | 337 | 980 |
| 3 | September 5, 2018 09:45 | September 5, 2018 16:30 | 6h 45m | 281 | 1,084 |
| 4 | August 28, 2018 00:30 | August 28, 2018 22:30 | 22h | 230 | 1,688 |
| 5 | September 17, 2018 22:15 | September 18, 2018 08:30 | 10h 15m | 158 | 1,245 |
| 6 | January 22, 2018 17:00 | January 22, 2018 21:00 | 4h | 129 | 190 |
| 7 | June 12, 2018 06:45 | June 12, 2018 07:00 | 15m | 106 | 27 |
| 8 | May 30, 2018 10:00 | May 30, 2018 13:15 | 3h 15m | 97 | 172 |
| 9 | October 8, 2018 17:30 | October 8, 2018 21:30 | 4h | 84 | 332 |
| 10 | April 16, 2018 00:45 | April 16, 2018 04:45 | 4h | 62 | 248 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 7 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 Jackson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 0.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 0.74 | 1.6 hrs | 0.74 |
| Oakdale Electric Coop | 2018 | 5.6 hrs | 1.36 | 2.2 hrs | 1.01 |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clark Electric Coop - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Black River Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Merrillan - (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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,991 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county