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2018 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 11.3 hours, a total of 105K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 486th 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 Vilas 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 | June 17, 2018 09:15 | June 20, 2018 23:15 | 3d 14h | 4,073 | 42K |
| 2 | May 16, 2018 18:30 | May 16, 2018 19:15 | 45m | 3,168 | 2,021 |
| 3 | January 29, 2018 17:15 | January 29, 2018 18:15 | 1h | 2,238 | 1,029 |
| 4 | May 12, 2018 18:45 | May 12, 2018 19:15 | 30m | 2,191 | 1,096 |
| 5 | October 15, 2018 14:15 | October 15, 2018 18:30 | 4h 15m | 1,408 | 366 |
| 6 | June 30, 2018 23:45 | July 1, 2018 18:45 | 19h | 1,224 | 3,869 |
| 7 | October 11, 2018 09:15 | October 11, 2018 18:30 | 9h 15m | 1,048 | 1,362 |
| 8 | October 18, 2018 14:15 | October 18, 2018 17:45 | 3h 30m | 1,021 | 778 |
| 9 | October 3, 2018 21:45 | October 4, 2018 21:30 | 23h 45m | 984 | 6,096 |
| 10 | May 30, 2018 19:15 | May 31, 2018 23:00 | 1d 3h | 975 | 1,565 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 45 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Vilas 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 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 0.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 1.8 hrs | 0.94 |
| 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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; 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, 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/vilas-county