County annual report · FIPS 55041
2019 Forest County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Forest County, WI went without power for an average of 28.1 hours, a total of 178K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 124th 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 Forest 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 12:15 | November 29, 2019 23:30 | 2d 11h | 7,039 | 50K |
| 2 | July 19, 2019 23:30 | July 20, 2019 19:00 | 19h 30m | 4,614 | 42K |
| 3 | July 20, 2019 20:30 | July 20, 2019 22:15 | 1h 45m | 2,037 | 2,165 |
| 4 | July 21, 2019 22:00 | July 22, 2019 15:00 | 17h | 1,970 | 12K |
| 5 | July 15, 2019 20:15 | July 16, 2019 21:30 | 1d 1h | 1,703 | 7,299 |
| 6 | August 3, 2019 19:00 | August 3, 2019 21:30 | 2h 30m | 1,679 | 4,077 |
| 7 | December 29, 2019 08:15 | December 30, 2019 01:45 | 17h 30m | 1,673 | 7,088 |
| 8 | February 4, 2019 14:30 | February 5, 2019 00:45 | 10h 15m | 1,510 | 7,262 |
| 9 | March 13, 2019 23:45 | March 14, 2019 06:45 | 7h | 1,340 | 4,691 |
| 10 | May 22, 2019 08:30 | May 23, 2019 07:45 | 23h 15m | 1,145 | 3,231 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 53 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Forest 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 |
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 ÷ 6,340 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. Forest County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forest 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/forest-county