Power outage history
Door County Wisconsin
7.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
12th most of 72 in Wisconsin close to the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Door's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 24 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Door, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2024 | Winter storm | 16,061 | 61% | 4.0 d | 2.4 d | 581k |
| Aug 2, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 13,409 | 51% | 31 h | 20 h | 199k |
| Aug 9, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 9,294 | 35% | 42 h | 35 h | 175k |
| Dec 1, 2019 | Winter storm | 8,767 | 33% | 35 h | 18 h | 105k |
| Jul 12, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 12,100 | 46% | 7.8 h | 4.5 h | 82k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Ice storm | 2,834 | 11% | 36 h | 20 h | 48k |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Windstorm | 4,108 | 15% | 36 h | 26 h | 48k |
| Dec 29, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,042 | 8% | 32 h | 23 h | 36k |
| Nov 26, 2025 | No storm report | 2,302 | 9% | 25 h | 21 h | 29k |
| Jun 17, 2018 | No storm report | 2,968 | 11% | 8.2 h | 3.8 h | 22k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,226 | 5% | 20 h | – | 19k |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,908 | 7% | 18 h | 15 h | 18k |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,970 | 7% | 12 h | 2.8 h | 18k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 2,196 | 8% | 42 h | 2.1 d | 17k |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,426 | 13% | 12 h | 8.0 h | 17k |
| May 17, 2025 | No storm report | 1,256 | 5% | 11 h | – | 13k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | No storm report | 1,632 | 6% | 11 h | 7.8 h | 12k |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,095 | 8% | 14 h | 11 h | 9.0k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Winter storm | 1,140 | 4% | 10 h | – | 7.4k |
| Jan 1, 2019 | No storm report | 949 | 4% | 9.0 h | – | 6.8k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | No storm report | 1,520 | 6% | 5.8 h | 7.0 h | 6.4k |
| Sep 12, 2022 | No storm report | 1,790 | 7% | 5.8 h | 15 h | 6.3k |
| Dec 26, 2016 | No storm report | 1,792 | 7% | 4.5 h | 1.8 h | 6.2k |
| Aug 20, 2017 | No storm report | 1,231 | 5% | 5.0 h | – | 6.0k |
| Oct 18, 2018 | No storm report | 3,388 | 13% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 5.8k |
| Oct 3, 2018 | No storm report | 1,382 | 5% | 5.8 h | 48 min | 5.7k |
| Dec 26, 2016 | No storm report | 3,142 | 12% | 1.8 h | 2.0 h | 5.5k |
| Dec 2, 2018 | No storm report | 1,764 | 7% | 3.5 h | 10 h | 5.3k |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 755 | 3% | 9.5 h | – | 4.9k |
| Dec 4, 2024 | Winter storm | 1,257 | 5% | 4.0 h | – | 4.8k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Door from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 55%
- Thunderstorms 21%
- No storm on record 17%
- Windstorm 3.7%
- Ice storm 3.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Door
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Wisconsin territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | Investor Owned | 630 | 107 | 1.44 | 17.2 | 416k |
| City of Sturgeon Bay | Municipal | 12 | 5 | 0.26 | 12.8 | 7.9k |
| Washington Island El Coop, Inc | WI | – | – | – | – | 7.3k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Door (this county) 7.1 h
- Kewaunee 2.5 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 26,534 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →