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2020 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1699th 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 Sawyer 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 | July 18, 2020 07:45 | July 20, 2020 01:30 | 1d 17h | 2,003 | 32K |
| 2 | June 1, 2020 00:45 | June 1, 2020 04:00 | 3h 15m | 1,052 | 2,937 |
| 3 | July 9, 2020 03:45 | July 9, 2020 14:15 | 10h 30m | 889 | 2,754 |
| 4 | September 4, 2020 18:30 | September 4, 2020 20:00 | 1h 30m | 475 | 713 |
| 5 | December 24, 2020 13:15 | December 24, 2020 17:00 | 3h 45m | 413 | 1,492 |
| 6 | July 20, 2020 12:00 | July 20, 2020 14:30 | 2h 30m | 198 | 298 |
| 7 | July 4, 2020 01:30 | July 4, 2020 03:15 | 1h 45m | 164 | 247 |
| 8 | July 14, 2020 22:30 | July 15, 2020 05:30 | 7h | 159 | 817 |
| 9 | August 8, 2020 08:00 | August 9, 2020 01:00 | 17h | 157 | 709 |
| 10 | September 10, 2020 14:15 | September 10, 2020 17:15 | 3h | 149 | 444 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 16 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2020 | 4.7 hrs | 1.68 | 3.5 hrs | 1.47 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/sawyer-county