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2022 Douglas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Douglas County, WI went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 130K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1537th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Douglas County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 14, 2022 16:15 | December 18, 2022 23:00 | 4d 6h | 6,682 | 100K |
| 2 | May 5, 2022 00:30 | May 5, 2022 07:30 | 7h | 2,782 | 7,374 |
| 3 | June 25, 2022 08:00 | June 25, 2022 11:30 | 3h 30m | 1,956 | 4,721 |
| 4 | April 20, 2022 03:45 | April 20, 2022 06:00 | 2h 15m | 435 | 912 |
| 5 | April 20, 2022 01:15 | April 20, 2022 02:15 | 1h | 406 | 230 |
| 6 | June 30, 2022 01:00 | June 30, 2022 02:30 | 1h 30m | 315 | 473 |
| 7 | May 31, 2022 13:15 | June 2, 2022 00:30 | 1d 11h | 254 | 772 |
| 8 | June 29, 2022 11:45 | June 29, 2022 12:30 | 45m | 235 | 73 |
| 9 | December 21, 2022 14:00 | December 22, 2022 01:15 | 11h 15m | 202 | 1,370 |
| 10 | May 28, 2022 13:00 | May 28, 2022 13:45 | 45m | 194 | 146 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 22 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Douglas County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2022 | 8.3 hrs | 2.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.12 |
| East Central Energy | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 1.45 | 62 min | 0.70 |
| Superior Water and Light Co | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 0.64 | 36 min | 0.23 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,088 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas County, WI annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/wisconsin/douglas-county