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2019 Oconto County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Oconto County, WI went without power for an average of 14.7 hours, a total of 392K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 344th 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 Oconto 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 27, 2019 16:45 | March 27, 2019 18:00 | 1h 15m | 13,455 | 4,214 |
| 2 | December 1, 2019 08:45 | December 3, 2019 09:30 | 2d | 10,114 | 48K |
| 3 | July 19, 2019 22:00 | July 23, 2019 16:45 | 3d 18h | 5,268 | 120K |
| 4 | October 2, 2019 06:45 | October 2, 2019 15:00 | 8h 15m | 3,649 | 3,469 |
| 5 | August 7, 2019 18:45 | August 8, 2019 15:00 | 20h 15m | 3,490 | 11K |
| 6 | August 26, 2019 20:30 | August 26, 2019 22:00 | 1h 30m | 3,473 | 3,473 |
| 7 | September 13, 2019 06:15 | September 13, 2019 19:45 | 13h 30m | 3,472 | 14K |
| 8 | March 13, 2019 22:15 | March 14, 2019 09:30 | 11h 15m | 2,522 | 9,814 |
| 9 | July 24, 2019 00:30 | July 27, 2019 18:15 | 3d 17h | 2,396 | 109K |
| 10 | January 31, 2019 11:00 | January 31, 2019 16:00 | 5h | 1,717 | 2,848 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 44 reached 100+ customers, 15 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Oconto 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 |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oconto Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| Oconto Falls Water & Light Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,761 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. Oconto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Oconto 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/oconto-county