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2022 Iron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Iron County, WI went without power for an average of 15.4 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 445th 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 Iron 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 | May 9, 2022 18:45 | May 10, 2022 21:45 | 1d 3h | 2,258 | 5,596 |
| 2 | May 11, 2022 19:45 | May 11, 2022 20:15 | 30m | 1,005 | 499 |
| 3 | May 31, 2022 08:00 | June 2, 2022 01:00 | 1d 17h | 944 | 6,125 |
| 4 | October 17, 2022 11:00 | October 18, 2022 01:30 | 14h 30m | 930 | 3,814 |
| 5 | September 8, 2022 20:00 | September 9, 2022 05:30 | 9h 30m | 878 | 2,412 |
| 6 | June 2, 2022 23:30 | June 3, 2022 00:45 | 1h 15m | 872 | 894 |
| 7 | March 23, 2022 06:30 | March 24, 2022 00:00 | 17h 30m | 702 | 1,150 |
| 8 | September 25, 2022 22:00 | September 26, 2022 07:30 | 9h 30m | 464 | 1,769 |
| 9 | April 30, 2022 17:30 | May 1, 2022 02:15 | 8h 45m | 448 | 1,046 |
| 10 | March 24, 2022 01:30 | March 25, 2022 04:15 | 1d 2h | 426 | 2,354 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 14 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Iron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2022 | 4.7 hrs | 1.05 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2022 | 6.7 hrs | 1.68 | 2.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2022 | 7.7 hrs | 1.45 | 1.6 hrs | 0.87 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, 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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 2,123 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. Iron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Iron 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/iron-county