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2019 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1623rd 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 Sawyer 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 | July 15, 2019 20:45 | July 16, 2019 03:30 | 6h 45m | 4,356 | 5,570 |
| 2 | October 5, 2019 15:45 | October 5, 2019 21:15 | 5h 30m | 2,296 | 2,311 |
| 3 | May 22, 2019 06:00 | May 22, 2019 10:30 | 4h 30m | 1,101 | 1,513 |
| 4 | June 30, 2019 12:45 | July 1, 2019 01:45 | 13h | 867 | 4,423 |
| 5 | July 19, 2019 22:15 | July 21, 2019 22:45 | 2d | 622 | 8,673 |
| 6 | December 12, 2019 02:15 | December 12, 2019 05:15 | 3h | 601 | 1,300 |
| 7 | October 6, 2019 05:30 | October 6, 2019 08:45 | 3h 15m | 595 | 1,933 |
| 8 | September 12, 2019 20:00 | September 13, 2019 00:30 | 4h 30m | 552 | 878 |
| 9 | September 5, 2019 15:15 | September 5, 2019 19:15 | 4h | 545 | 537 |
| 10 | June 7, 2019 22:00 | June 8, 2019 00:30 | 2h 30m | 462 | 657 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 22 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 Sawyer 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 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 13,024 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. Sawyer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sawyer 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/sawyer-county