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2024 Vilas County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Vilas County, WI went without power for an average of 19.3 hours, a total of 179K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 524th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Vilas County, 2024
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 13, 2024 17:30 | July 14, 2024 08:00 | 14h 30m | 4,368 | 18K |
| 2 | August 27, 2024 01:30 | August 28, 2024 01:30 | 1d | 4,078 | 23K |
| 3 | February 26, 2024 22:15 | February 26, 2024 23:15 | 1h | 2,841 | 2,131 |
| 4 | November 19, 2024 05:30 | November 21, 2024 03:00 | 1d 21h | 2,429 | 13K |
| 5 | September 23, 2024 03:30 | September 23, 2024 11:45 | 8h 15m | 1,771 | 6,414 |
| 6 | April 3, 2024 01:30 | April 4, 2024 09:30 | 1d 8h | 1,763 | 16K |
| 7 | November 11, 2024 10:00 | November 12, 2024 21:00 | 1d 11h | 1,753 | 12K |
| 8 | September 5, 2024 11:30 | September 5, 2024 19:30 | 8h | 1,746 | 4,235 |
| 9 | October 25, 2024 15:45 | October 25, 2024 19:00 | 3h 15m | 1,745 | 3,491 |
| 10 | April 16, 2024 20:45 | April 17, 2024 18:00 | 21h 15m | 1,392 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 59 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Vilas County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 4.9 hrs | 1.04 | 1.8 hrs | 0.74 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2024 | 3.1 hrs | 1.06 | 2.0 hrs | 0.81 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2024 | 7.8 hrs | 1.22 | 1.6 hrs | 0.77 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/wisconsin/vilas-county