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2019 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 31.9 hours, a total of 296K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 107th 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 Vilas 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 | September 25, 2019 02:15 | September 25, 2019 23:15 | 21h | 5,408 | 10K |
| 2 | November 27, 2019 09:00 | November 30, 2019 01:30 | 2d 16h | 5,256 | 122K |
| 3 | May 22, 2019 08:15 | May 23, 2019 17:00 | 1d 8h | 3,164 | 31K |
| 4 | December 5, 2019 17:45 | December 5, 2019 18:00 | 15m | 2,997 | 749 |
| 5 | July 20, 2019 00:30 | July 20, 2019 22:15 | 21h 45m | 2,969 | 12K |
| 6 | February 24, 2019 06:00 | February 25, 2019 13:15 | 1d 7h | 2,445 | 6,616 |
| 7 | February 12, 2019 10:45 | February 14, 2019 09:45 | 1d 23h | 2,330 | 31K |
| 8 | July 29, 2019 01:45 | July 29, 2019 23:00 | 21h 15m | 1,979 | 16K |
| 9 | February 7, 2019 18:45 | February 8, 2019 10:30 | 15h 45m | 1,830 | 4,651 |
| 10 | August 5, 2019 14:00 | August 6, 2019 20:30 | 1d 6h | 1,454 | 3,938 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 54 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Vilas 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 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 0.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 1.8 hrs | 0.94 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eagle River - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,284 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. Vilas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vilas 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/vilas-county