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2023 Bayfield County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bayfield County, WI went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2178th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bayfield County, 2023
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 3, 2023 21:30 | July 4, 2023 07:00 | 9h 30m | 1,992 | 5,661 |
| 2 | June 2, 2023 19:00 | June 3, 2023 00:00 | 5h | 1,230 | 2,604 |
| 3 | October 13, 2023 20:30 | October 13, 2023 22:00 | 1h 30m | 654 | 883 |
| 4 | October 3, 2023 21:15 | October 3, 2023 23:30 | 2h 15m | 289 | 362 |
| 5 | October 5, 2023 19:15 | October 5, 2023 20:15 | 1h | 210 | 137 |
| 6 | April 20, 2023 22:15 | April 21, 2023 04:15 | 6h | 184 | 800 |
| 7 | November 19, 2023 16:15 | November 19, 2023 18:15 | 2h | 182 | 364 |
| 8 | November 16, 2023 21:00 | November 17, 2023 02:30 | 5h 30m | 164 | 457 |
| 9 | August 30, 2023 12:15 | August 30, 2023 13:45 | 1h 30m | 146 | 146 |
| 10 | August 19, 2023 22:15 | August 20, 2023 00:30 | 2h 15m | 101 | 168 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 10 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 Bayfield County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.09 |
| 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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,473 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. Bayfield County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bayfield County, WI annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/wisconsin/bayfield-county