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2019 Douglas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Douglas County, WI went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2672nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Douglas County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 10, 2019 13:45 | March 10, 2019 17:45 | 4h | 1,819 | 3,268 |
| 2 | October 21, 2019 20:15 | October 22, 2019 22:15 | 1d 2h | 1,489 | 3,472 |
| 3 | November 14, 2019 21:30 | November 14, 2019 23:15 | 1h 45m | 1,093 | 304 |
| 4 | February 4, 2019 03:15 | February 4, 2019 10:00 | 6h 45m | 826 | 1,875 |
| 5 | March 25, 2019 06:30 | March 25, 2019 09:30 | 3h | 817 | 2,451 |
| 6 | February 25, 2019 14:15 | February 25, 2019 15:30 | 1h 15m | 432 | 540 |
| 7 | December 1, 2019 15:00 | December 2, 2019 08:30 | 17h 30m | 140 | 379 |
| 8 | July 17, 2019 18:45 | July 18, 2019 15:30 | 20h 45m | 131 | 280 |
| 9 | September 4, 2019 12:15 | September 4, 2019 14:30 | 2h 15m | 88 | 85 |
| 10 | August 28, 2019 10:45 | August 28, 2019 11:15 | 30m | 86 | 43 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 8 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Douglas County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.49 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| East Central Energy | 2018 | 71 min | 1.05 | 54 min | 0.88 |
| Superior Water and Light Co | 2018 | 63 min | 0.47 | 34 min | 0.31 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 84% of Wisconsin's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,088 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas County, WI annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/wisconsin/douglas-county