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2021 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 36K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.7 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1946th 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 Sawyer 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 | June 7, 2021 15:45 | June 7, 2021 22:00 | 6h 15m | 2,096 | 2,356 |
| 2 | May 27, 2021 15:45 | May 27, 2021 19:00 | 3h 15m | 2,093 | 1,029 |
| 3 | July 27, 2021 02:30 | July 27, 2021 19:00 | 16h 30m | 1,296 | 6,616 |
| 4 | September 7, 2021 22:00 | September 8, 2021 05:30 | 7h 30m | 1,175 | 4,443 |
| 5 | April 5, 2021 16:00 | April 5, 2021 16:15 | 15m | 1,061 | 265 |
| 6 | February 26, 2021 12:15 | February 26, 2021 15:30 | 3h 15m | 1,004 | 578 |
| 7 | June 6, 2021 19:45 | June 6, 2021 22:30 | 2h 45m | 749 | 1,147 |
| 8 | July 4, 2021 00:30 | July 4, 2021 04:45 | 4h 15m | 697 | 1,309 |
| 9 | March 29, 2021 21:30 | March 30, 2021 03:15 | 5h 45m | 696 | 2,626 |
| 10 | December 16, 2021 03:45 | December 17, 2021 00:45 | 21h | 659 | 5,477 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 17 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.32 | 2.7 hrs | 1.32 |
| 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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2021; 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, 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/sawyer-county