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2023 Sawyer County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sawyer County, WI went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2323rd 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 Sawyer 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 | November 6, 2023 03:00 | November 6, 2023 04:15 | 1h 15m | 3,620 | 3,559 |
| 2 | August 16, 2023 20:45 | August 17, 2023 16:45 | 20h | 1,292 | 2,767 |
| 3 | July 27, 2023 21:00 | July 28, 2023 14:00 | 17h | 1,096 | 4,454 |
| 4 | February 9, 2023 14:45 | February 9, 2023 19:30 | 4h 45m | 709 | 3,368 |
| 5 | June 2, 2023 19:00 | June 2, 2023 23:45 | 4h 45m | 558 | 1,256 |
| 6 | October 4, 2023 07:00 | October 4, 2023 10:30 | 3h 30m | 390 | 1,365 |
| 7 | June 27, 2023 07:00 | June 27, 2023 09:00 | 2h | 374 | 226 |
| 8 | July 19, 2023 23:15 | July 20, 2023 05:15 | 6h | 369 | 542 |
| 9 | August 11, 2023 22:15 | August 12, 2023 00:45 | 2h 30m | 284 | 356 |
| 10 | September 6, 2023 03:45 | September 6, 2023 07:30 | 3h 45m | 195 | 431 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 24 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 Sawyer 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.48 |
| 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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; 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, 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/sawyer-county