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2020 Iron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Iron County, WI went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1272nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Iron County, 2020
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 3, 2020 07:45 | September 3, 2020 12:00 | 4h 15m | 837 | 2,065 |
| 2 | July 19, 2020 04:45 | July 19, 2020 13:45 | 9h | 616 | 4,322 |
| 3 | December 14, 2020 18:00 | December 14, 2020 20:30 | 2h 30m | 439 | 546 |
| 4 | October 5, 2020 18:30 | October 6, 2020 02:00 | 7h 30m | 401 | 711 |
| 5 | April 8, 2020 22:00 | April 9, 2020 01:45 | 3h 45m | 374 | 463 |
| 6 | November 2, 2020 20:00 | November 2, 2020 21:15 | 1h 15m | 249 | 305 |
| 7 | July 3, 2020 22:30 | July 4, 2020 04:00 | 5h 30m | 202 | 483 |
| 8 | December 3, 2020 15:30 | December 3, 2020 17:45 | 2h 15m | 151 | 324 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 17:45 | April 13, 2020 22:15 | 4h 30m | 138 | 436 |
| 10 | November 7, 2020 08:45 | November 7, 2020 10:45 | 2h | 111 | 102 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 10 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Iron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.3 hrs | 0.87 | 1.6 hrs | 0.70 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.52 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, 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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,123 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. Iron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron County, WI annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/wisconsin/iron-county