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2020 Waupaca County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Waupaca County, WI went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2289th 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 Waupaca 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 19, 2020 08:45 | July 19, 2020 14:30 | 5h 45m | 2,637 | 1,393 |
| 2 | August 7, 2020 06:45 | August 7, 2020 09:45 | 3h | 2,550 | 4,568 |
| 3 | March 18, 2020 15:00 | March 18, 2020 16:15 | 1h 15m | 2,274 | 1,706 |
| 4 | April 6, 2020 17:45 | April 6, 2020 19:45 | 2h | 2,272 | 1,138 |
| 5 | March 19, 2020 14:30 | March 19, 2020 15:45 | 1h 15m | 2,271 | 1,703 |
| 6 | March 20, 2020 11:30 | March 20, 2020 12:00 | 30m | 2,271 | 1,136 |
| 7 | April 7, 2020 14:15 | April 7, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 1,176 | 294 |
| 8 | May 10, 2020 01:00 | May 10, 2020 05:30 | 4h 30m | 1,085 | 2,138 |
| 9 | August 11, 2020 21:15 | August 11, 2020 23:00 | 1h 45m | 1,042 | 1,824 |
| 10 | April 20, 2020 23:45 | April 21, 2020 06:45 | 7h | 789 | 1,243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 44 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Waupaca 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 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 |
| Adams-Columbia Electric Coop | 2020 | 2.6 hrs | 0.71 | 2.6 hrs | 0.71 |
| Central Wisconsin Elec Coop | 2018 | 2.5 hrs | 1.27 | - | - |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| New London Electric&Water Util | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Clintonville - (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 ÷ 23,619 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. Waupaca County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waupaca 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/waupaca-county