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2022 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 26.2 hours, a total of 341K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 229th 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 Sawyer 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 15, 2022 05:15 | December 18, 2022 12:30 | 3d 7h | 5,902 | 223K |
| 2 | August 3, 2022 02:15 | August 4, 2022 23:00 | 1d 20h | 3,560 | 47K |
| 3 | March 5, 2022 10:15 | March 7, 2022 05:00 | 1d 18h | 2,589 | 43K |
| 4 | June 24, 2022 06:15 | June 24, 2022 21:00 | 14h 45m | 1,415 | 9,411 |
| 5 | September 9, 2022 02:30 | September 9, 2022 04:30 | 2h | 907 | 1,134 |
| 6 | May 12, 2022 03:45 | May 12, 2022 17:00 | 13h 15m | 854 | 1,565 |
| 7 | May 9, 2022 18:00 | May 10, 2022 06:15 | 12h 15m | 726 | 3,823 |
| 8 | August 29, 2022 06:00 | August 29, 2022 13:45 | 7h 45m | 275 | 1,111 |
| 9 | December 21, 2022 20:00 | December 22, 2022 18:45 | 22h 45m | 273 | 1,956 |
| 10 | July 6, 2022 16:45 | July 6, 2022 17:45 | 1h | 205 | 205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 23 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2022 | 6.7 hrs | 1.68 | 2.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2022 | 19.0 hrs | 2.80 | 4.1 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/sawyer-county