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2020 Jackson County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Jackson County, WI went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 888 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2957th 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 Jackson 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 | August 21, 2020 07:15 | August 21, 2020 07:45 | 30m | 159 | 80 |
| 2 | November 10, 2020 15:00 | November 10, 2020 16:15 | 1h 15m | 107 | 124 |
| 3 | November 13, 2020 14:30 | November 13, 2020 17:15 | 2h 45m | 66 | 165 |
| 4 | December 18, 2020 16:15 | December 18, 2020 17:00 | 45m | 66 | 33 |
| 5 | May 30, 2020 19:15 | May 31, 2020 02:15 | 7h | 22 | 154 |
| 6 | June 2, 2020 23:45 | June 3, 2020 22:45 | 23h | 21 | 131 |
| 7 | September 2, 2020 13:30 | September 2, 2020 14:45 | 1h 15m | 20 | 20 |
| 8 | June 20, 2020 10:15 | June 20, 2020 12:00 | 1h 45m | 14 | 18 |
| 9 | June 29, 2020 22:15 | June 30, 2020 00:30 | 2h 15m | 10 | 15 |
| 10 | July 19, 2020 07:15 | July 19, 2020 13:00 | 5h 45m | 8 | 32 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 2 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 Jackson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.52 |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2020 | 88 min | 0.69 | 73 min | 0.59 |
| Oakdale Electric Coop | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.01 | 1.5 hrs | 0.92 |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clark Electric Coop - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Black River Falls | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Merrillan - (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 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 14,991 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. Jackson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Jackson 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/jackson-county