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2021 Ashland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ashland County, WI went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.7 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2266th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ashland County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 6, 2021 17:15 | May 6, 2021 17:30 | 15m | 1,142 | 286 |
| 2 | July 14, 2021 21:30 | July 15, 2021 01:15 | 3h 45m | 839 | 1,200 |
| 3 | July 28, 2021 23:00 | July 29, 2021 07:45 | 8h 45m | 471 | 4,014 |
| 4 | November 21, 2021 14:45 | November 21, 2021 18:30 | 3h 45m | 342 | 598 |
| 5 | December 16, 2021 04:45 | December 17, 2021 22:00 | 1d 17h | 317 | 980 |
| 6 | September 7, 2021 07:15 | September 7, 2021 08:45 | 1h 30m | 277 | 349 |
| 7 | October 16, 2021 14:15 | October 16, 2021 17:30 | 3h 15m | 261 | 796 |
| 8 | July 28, 2021 08:30 | July 28, 2021 17:15 | 8h 45m | 128 | 647 |
| 9 | June 18, 2021 18:00 | June 18, 2021 20:45 | 2h 45m | 112 | 174 |
| 10 | July 27, 2021 02:15 | July 28, 2021 00:45 | 22h 30m | 95 | 1,141 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Ashland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | 1.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield 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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,345 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. Ashland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ashland County, WI annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/wisconsin/ashland-county