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2021 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 103.2 hours, a total of 958K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 74th 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 Vilas 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 | July 27, 2021 03:00 | July 31, 2021 05:15 | 4d 2h | 19,123 | 532K |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 05:00 | December 20, 2021 03:30 | 3d 22h | 12,910 | 344K |
| 3 | March 10, 2021 19:30 | March 11, 2021 01:00 | 5h 30m | 3,470 | 901 |
| 4 | April 17, 2021 18:00 | April 17, 2021 20:00 | 2h | 2,916 | 734 |
| 5 | June 21, 2021 03:30 | June 21, 2021 04:45 | 1h 15m | 2,777 | 2,775 |
| 6 | July 24, 2021 07:00 | July 24, 2021 22:00 | 15h | 2,513 | 3,218 |
| 7 | September 16, 2021 17:00 | September 17, 2021 19:15 | 1d 2h | 2,512 | 10K |
| 8 | September 21, 2021 02:30 | September 21, 2021 09:00 | 6h 30m | 2,459 | 5,777 |
| 9 | March 22, 2021 12:15 | March 22, 2021 13:00 | 45m | 2,345 | 1,759 |
| 10 | May 17, 2021 19:30 | May 18, 2021 04:30 | 9h | 1,482 | 9,631 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 49 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Vilas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2021 | 7.0 hrs | 1.13 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | 1.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2021 | 9.3 hrs | 1.46 | 1.6 hrs | 0.83 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Eagle River - (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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,284 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. Vilas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vilas 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/vilas-county