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2019 Florence County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Florence County, WI went without power for an average of 16.0 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 298th 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 Florence 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 | November 27, 2019 11:15 | November 30, 2019 04:45 | 2d 17h | 3,370 | 32K |
| 2 | December 7, 2019 11:30 | December 7, 2019 11:45 | 15m | 535 | 134 |
| 3 | December 15, 2019 17:00 | December 15, 2019 18:30 | 1h 30m | 535 | 803 |
| 4 | September 25, 2019 20:45 | September 25, 2019 23:30 | 2h 45m | 534 | 676 |
| 5 | July 20, 2019 00:30 | July 20, 2019 22:15 | 21h 45m | 433 | 2,496 |
| 6 | February 4, 2019 16:15 | February 5, 2019 01:00 | 8h 45m | 354 | 1,059 |
| 7 | June 25, 2019 05:45 | June 25, 2019 09:00 | 3h 15m | 330 | 909 |
| 8 | April 16, 2019 11:45 | April 16, 2019 14:30 | 2h 45m | 282 | 443 |
| 9 | April 16, 2019 17:45 | April 16, 2019 20:00 | 2h 15m | 259 | 249 |
| 10 | March 1, 2019 16:15 | March 1, 2019 17:15 | 1h | 196 | 196 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 13 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Florence 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.73 | 70 min | 0.59 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 1.8 hrs | 0.94 |
| Florence Utility Comm | 2018 | 45 min | 0.44 | 45 min | 0.44 |
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 ÷ 2,842 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. Florence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Florence 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/florence-county