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2025 Forest County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Forest County, WI went without power for an average of 104.7 hours, a total of 664K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 29th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forest County, 2025
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 30, 2025 02:00 | April 4, 2025 03:45 | 5d 1h | 9,526 | 630K |
| 2 | March 29, 2025 06:00 | March 29, 2025 14:15 | 8h 15m | 1,656 | 5,910 |
| 3 | November 2, 2025 18:15 | November 2, 2025 22:45 | 4h 30m | 1,244 | 1,363 |
| 4 | May 16, 2025 02:15 | May 18, 2025 17:00 | 2d 14h | 1,012 | 5,661 |
| 5 | October 10, 2025 16:00 | October 10, 2025 17:45 | 1h 45m | 855 | 220 |
| 6 | March 17, 2025 21:30 | March 17, 2025 23:00 | 1h 30m | 806 | 1,208 |
| 7 | February 6, 2025 19:00 | February 7, 2025 05:00 | 10h | 422 | 1,774 |
| 8 | June 21, 2025 13:45 | June 22, 2025 03:15 | 13h 30m | 365 | 2,356 |
| 9 | April 29, 2025 02:00 | April 29, 2025 23:15 | 21h 15m | 352 | 1,658 |
| 10 | March 5, 2025 12:45 | March 6, 2025 19:00 | 1d 6h | 329 | 2,869 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 19 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Forest County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2024 | 7.8 hrs | 1.22 | 1.6 hrs | 0.77 |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,340 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. Forest County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forest County, WI annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/wisconsin/forest-county