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2023 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 29.5 hours, a total of 274K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 242nd 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 Vilas 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 27, 2023 23:15 | July 30, 2023 02:30 | 2d 3h | 11,423 | 111K |
| 2 | June 6, 2023 15:15 | June 7, 2023 01:00 | 9h 45m | 6,944 | 4,381 |
| 3 | April 1, 2023 03:30 | April 3, 2023 04:30 | 2d 1h | 5,582 | 34K |
| 4 | April 30, 2023 07:00 | May 1, 2023 09:15 | 1d 2h | 4,029 | 23K |
| 5 | November 9, 2023 15:15 | November 9, 2023 22:00 | 6h 45m | 2,832 | 4,529 |
| 6 | April 5, 2023 17:15 | April 6, 2023 07:00 | 13h 45m | 2,827 | 6,016 |
| 7 | April 18, 2023 02:15 | April 18, 2023 18:15 | 16h | 2,765 | 27K |
| 8 | July 3, 2023 23:30 | July 4, 2023 16:00 | 16h 30m | 2,675 | 7,347 |
| 9 | April 12, 2023 23:45 | April 13, 2023 01:00 | 1h 15m | 1,487 | 1,537 |
| 10 | September 6, 2023 06:00 | September 6, 2023 16:30 | 10h 30m | 1,466 | 2,989 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 49 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 1.04 | 85 min | 0.68 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.09 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 0.85 | 74 min | 0.67 |
| 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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; 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, 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/vilas-county