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2019 Rusk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rusk County, WI went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1895th 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 Rusk 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 | January 1, 2019 18:15 | January 2, 2019 01:45 | 7h 30m | 4,061 | 13K |
| 2 | July 17, 2019 13:30 | July 17, 2019 14:00 | 30m | 1,167 | 584 |
| 3 | November 3, 2019 22:45 | November 4, 2019 01:45 | 3h | 1,053 | 1,319 |
| 4 | October 30, 2019 13:30 | October 30, 2019 18:30 | 5h | 583 | 894 |
| 5 | June 30, 2019 20:45 | July 1, 2019 06:45 | 10h | 411 | 1,600 |
| 6 | July 15, 2019 20:45 | July 16, 2019 18:15 | 21h 30m | 300 | 2,485 |
| 7 | April 23, 2019 16:15 | April 23, 2019 17:00 | 45m | 212 | 159 |
| 8 | November 27, 2019 12:15 | November 28, 2019 02:30 | 14h 15m | 168 | 822 |
| 9 | July 20, 2019 00:00 | July 20, 2019 19:45 | 19h 45m | 138 | 1,818 |
| 10 | March 23, 2019 22:00 | March 23, 2019 23:15 | 1h 15m | 123 | 124 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 10 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 Rusk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 0.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,344 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county