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2018 Rusk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rusk County, WI went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 6,652 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2447th 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 Rusk 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 | July 13, 2018 07:30 | July 13, 2018 07:45 | 15m | 1,171 | 293 |
| 2 | May 16, 2018 20:15 | May 16, 2018 20:45 | 30m | 1,170 | 585 |
| 3 | June 17, 2018 09:30 | June 17, 2018 15:45 | 6h 15m | 1,068 | 1,200 |
| 4 | November 4, 2018 07:30 | November 4, 2018 15:00 | 7h 30m | 1,009 | 1,568 |
| 5 | July 25, 2018 22:45 | July 25, 2018 23:30 | 45m | 212 | 159 |
| 6 | October 4, 2018 04:30 | October 4, 2018 09:00 | 4h 30m | 212 | 232 |
| 7 | September 5, 2018 06:15 | September 5, 2018 12:00 | 5h 45m | 136 | 341 |
| 8 | June 14, 2018 01:45 | June 14, 2018 03:00 | 1h 15m | 125 | 35 |
| 9 | June 11, 2018 21:00 | June 11, 2018 22:30 | 1h 30m | 93 | 94 |
| 10 | June 29, 2018 23:45 | June 30, 2018 02:45 | 3h | 78 | 47 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 8 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 |
| 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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; 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, 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/rusk-county