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2022 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 72.4 hours, a total of 672K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 41st 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 Vilas 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 | March 23, 2022 06:15 | March 27, 2022 02:45 | 3d 20h | 13,340 | 344K |
| 2 | May 12, 2022 06:00 | May 14, 2022 03:15 | 1d 21h | 8,041 | 28K |
| 3 | May 31, 2022 13:00 | June 2, 2022 01:00 | 1d 12h | 6,148 | 68K |
| 4 | May 9, 2022 15:15 | May 12, 2022 00:00 | 2d 8h | 6,066 | 77K |
| 5 | May 18, 2022 22:30 | May 19, 2022 19:30 | 21h | 4,293 | 23K |
| 6 | October 12, 2022 11:30 | October 12, 2022 21:00 | 9h 30m | 4,027 | 19K |
| 7 | June 15, 2022 21:45 | June 17, 2022 06:00 | 1d 8h | 3,570 | 8,058 |
| 8 | September 25, 2022 21:30 | September 26, 2022 15:15 | 17h 45m | 3,105 | 11K |
| 9 | November 7, 2022 08:00 | November 7, 2022 09:30 | 1h 30m | 2,795 | 3,494 |
| 10 | May 4, 2022 15:00 | May 4, 2022 21:00 | 6h | 2,794 | 2,802 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 68 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/vilas-county