Power outage history
Sawyer County Wisconsin
6.4hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
15th 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 Sawyer's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 26 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Sawyer, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 15, 2022 | Winter storm | 5,902 | 45% | 2.8 d | 46 h | 223k |
| Jun 25, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 3,348 | 26% | 45 h | 36 h | 81k |
| Jun 11, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 2,914 | 22% | 2.2 d | 43 h | 76k |
| Aug 2, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,560 | 27% | 25 h | 17 h | 45k |
| Mar 5, 2022 | Ice storm | 2,589 | 20% | 41 h | 11 h | 43k |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,886 | 22% | 36 h | 26 h | 42k |
| Jul 18, 2020 | No storm report | 2,003 | 15% | 20 h | 8.5 h | 23k |
| Sep 13, 2024 | No storm report | 2,660 | 20% | 7.2 h | 7.8 h | 19k |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 1,585 | 12% | 26 h | 15 h | 18k |
| Jul 21, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,381 | 11% | 26 h | 23 h | 16k |
| Jul 13, 2025 | No storm report | 2,692 | 21% | 5.8 h | 5.8 h | 15k |
| Apr 28, 2025 | No storm report | 1,658 | 13% | 19 h | 15 h | 13k |
| Jun 24, 2022 | No storm report | 1,415 | 11% | 9.0 h | 2.5 h | 9.2k |
| Jul 18, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,650 | 13% | 12 h | 8.2 h | 8.8k |
| Jul 19, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 622 | 5% | 21 h | – | 7.9k |
| May 29, 2015 | No storm report | 2,504 | 19% | 3.5 h | 2.8 h | 7.7k |
| Jul 26, 2021 | No storm report | 1,296 | 10% | 9.5 h | 8.2 h | 6.5k |
| Jul 15, 2025 | No storm report | 1,539 | 12% | 4.0 h | 2.5 h | 5.8k |
| Jul 27, 2025 | No storm report | 968 | 7% | 13 h | 11 h | 5.7k |
| Jul 15, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,356 | 33% | 2.0 h | 1.8 h | 5.6k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | No storm report | 659 | 5% | 13 h | 11 h | 5.3k |
| Jun 22, 2015 | No storm report | 1,742 | 13% | 11 h | 4.0 h | 4.6k |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,175 | 9% | 6.2 h | 2.2 h | 4.4k |
| Oct 28, 2015 | No storm report | 1,027 | 8% | 4.2 h | 4.2 h | 4.4k |
| Jul 27, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 1,096 | 8% | 11 h | 9.2 h | 4.4k |
| Aug 27, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 1,221 | 9% | 11 h | 9.8 h | 4.3k |
| Jun 30, 2019 | No storm report | 867 | 7% | 8.8 h | 7.2 h | 4.3k |
| Jun 17, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 914 | 7% | 11 h | 11 h | 4.1k |
| May 9, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 726 | 6% | 9.0 h | 6.2 h | 3.7k |
| Nov 5, 2023 | No storm report | 3,620 | 28% | 1.2 h | 9.8 h | 3.6k |
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 Sawyer from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Winter storm 44%
- No storm on record 31%
- Thunderstorms 19%
- Ice storm 7.0%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Sawyer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | Investor Owned | 309 | 110 | 1.15 | 15.6 | 223k |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | WI | – | – | – | 15.6 | 81k |
| Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc | WI | – | – | – | 18.6 | 70k |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | WI | 404 | 404 | 2.48 | 20.2 | 56k |
| Barron Electric Coop | Cooperative | 307 | 126 | 2.18 | 16.0 | 19k |
| North Central Power Co Inc | Investor Owned | – | – | – | 16.4 | 5.1k |
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.
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 13,024 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 →