Power outage history
Marinette County Wisconsin
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
8th most of 72 in Wisconsin 1.9× 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 Marinette'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 29 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Marinette, 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 | 19,800 | 66% | 4.6 d | 2.4 d | 786k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Ice storm | 8,936 | 30% | 4.4 d | 3.1 d | 459k |
| Jun 11, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 16,826 | 56% | 3.3 d | 2.3 d | 413k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Tornadoes | 7,972 | 27% | 3.1 d | 2.2 d | 314k |
| Mar 23, 2022 | Winter storm | 9,380 | 31% | 3.2 d | 2.5 d | 285k |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Windstorm | 5,881 | 20% | 2.3 d | 2.0 h | 119k |
| Dec 1, 2019 | Winter storm | 7,876 | 26% | 35 h | 22 h | 84k |
| Dec 11, 2021 | Winter storm | 6,376 | 21% | 39 h | 28 h | 80k |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,801 | 16% | 20 h | 7.8 h | 70k |
| Mar 7, 2017 | No storm report | 5,939 | 20% | 31 h | 14 h | 57k |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 3,387 | 11% | 38 h | 38 h | 48k |
| Jul 18, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 6,376 | 21% | 11 h | 5.8 h | 44k |
| Dec 28, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,061 | 7% | 32 h | 28 h | 31k |
| May 16, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,682 | 16% | 30 h | 27 h | 30k |
| Nov 27, 2019 | No storm report | 2,304 | 8% | 23 h | 21 h | 28k |
| Aug 2, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 5,188 | 17% | 11 h | 8.5 h | 28k |
| Jul 21, 2019 | No storm report | 2,233 | 7% | 17 h | 17 h | 28k |
| Feb 12, 2015 | No storm report | 11,170 | 37% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 20k |
| Apr 1, 2023 | Winter storm | 2,821 | 9% | 20 h | 11 h | 20k |
| Jun 10, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,857 | 6% | 19 h | 15 h | 17k |
| Feb 14, 2015 | No storm report | 11,427 | 38% | 2.8 h | 2.8 h | 15k |
| Dec 26, 2016 | No storm report | 4,960 | 17% | 8.5 h | 5.2 h | 14k |
| May 19, 2020 | No storm report | 4,310 | 14% | 4.5 h | 4.5 h | 12k |
| May 4, 2018 | No storm report | 2,308 | 8% | 6.8 h | 12 h | 11k |
| Jul 23, 2025 | No storm report | 4,023 | 13% | 6.5 h | 3.8 h | 11k |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Winter storm | 3,718 | 12% | 2.8 h | 6.5 h | 10k |
| May 25, 2021 | No storm report | 1,880 | 6% | 8.2 h | 6.8 h | 10k |
| Aug 15, 2015 | No storm report | 1,884 | 6% | 5.2 h | 5.5 h | 9.9k |
| Jul 1, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,395 | 8% | 8.5 h | 6.8 h | 9.7k |
| Dec 4, 2017 | No storm report | 2,407 | 8% | 9.5 h | 5.8 h | 9.1k |
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 Marinette from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 48%
- Ice storm 17%
- No storm on record 12%
- Tornadoes 11%
- Thunderstorms 7.5%
- Windstorm 4.3%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Marinette
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 Electric Power Co | Investor Owned | 185 | 93 | 0.90 | 20.5 | 1.1M |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | Investor Owned | 630 | 107 | 1.44 | 17.2 | 416k |
| Oconto Electric Cooperative | WI | 1,885 | – | 3.13 | 13.6 | 94k |
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
- Forest 26 h
- Florence 14 h
- Marinette (this county) 13 h
- Menominee, MI 12 h
- Oconto 8.8 h
- Dickinson, MI 8.7 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 29,899 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 →