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2018 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1833rd 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 Sawyer 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 | May 30, 2018 00:15 | May 30, 2018 15:00 | 14h 45m | 1,306 | 2,772 |
| 2 | August 28, 2018 00:45 | August 28, 2018 18:30 | 17h 45m | 1,221 | 4,515 |
| 3 | August 4, 2018 07:45 | August 4, 2018 10:30 | 2h 45m | 1,086 | 2,722 |
| 4 | March 5, 2018 15:45 | March 5, 2018 19:00 | 3h 15m | 1,070 | 721 |
| 5 | August 14, 2018 20:45 | August 15, 2018 02:45 | 6h | 1,031 | 3,248 |
| 6 | June 17, 2018 06:00 | June 18, 2018 01:15 | 19h 15m | 914 | 4,926 |
| 7 | July 14, 2018 20:30 | July 14, 2018 22:15 | 1h 45m | 677 | 530 |
| 8 | July 1, 2018 19:00 | July 1, 2018 23:15 | 4h 15m | 345 | 384 |
| 9 | May 1, 2018 18:00 | May 1, 2018 20:30 | 2h 30m | 301 | 123 |
| 10 | June 15, 2018 16:00 | June 16, 2018 00:30 | 8h 30m | 212 | 855 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 17 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| 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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; 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, 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/sawyer-county