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Power outage history

Vilas County Wisconsin

44hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

1st most of 72 in Wisconsin 6.7× the national median

Worst outage on record Jul 26, 2021 100% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 44h / yr State average 3.5 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 14.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 4.7days Nov 25, 2025, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2021 3.7 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 9,284 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Vilas's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.7 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Vilas, hours without power per customer

VilasUS median countyWisconsin average

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
Jul 26, 2021	Thunderstorms	9,284	100%	3.7 d	2.9 d	412k
Nov 25, 2025	Winter storm	8,939	96%	4.7 d	3.2 d	371k
Mar 23, 2022	Winter storm	9,284	100%	2.8 d	42 h	327k
Dec 15, 2021	Windstorm	9,284	100%	3.5 d	2.4 d	321k
Jun 10, 2016	Thunderstorms	9,284	100%	2.4 d	45 h	264k
Mar 7, 2017	No storm report	6,676	72%	2.5 d	35 h	191k
Jul 21, 2016	Thunderstorms	9,284	100%	2.4 d	36 h	180k
Jun 11, 2017	Thunderstorms	9,284	100%	2.2 d	30 h	129k
Nov 27, 2019	Winter storm	5,256	57%	2.6 d	2.0 d	122k
Jul 27, 2023	Thunderstorms	9,284	100%	2.1 d	27 h	109k
Mar 30, 2025	Winter storm	2,856	31%	3.4 d	2.2 d	93k
Apr 9, 2017	Thunderstorms	4,317	47%	45 h	38 h	89k
Dec 28, 2025	Winter storm	4,921	53%	41 h	21 h	83k
May 9, 2022	No storm report	6,066	65%	48 h	24 h	77k
May 17, 2017	Thunderstorms	9,119	98%	23 h	15 h	67k
May 31, 2022	No storm report	6,148	66%	30 h	22 h	67k
Jun 21, 2025	Thunderstorms	4,845	52%	37 h	27 h	63k
Jun 25, 2016	Thunderstorms	8,916	96%	34 h	3.8 h	56k
Jun 6, 2015	No storm report	3,012	32%	19 h	11 h	54k
Jun 17, 2018	Thunderstorms	4,073	44%	24 h	19 h	41k
Apr 1, 2023	Winter storm	5,582	60%	32 h	13 h	33k
Feb 12, 2019	Winter storm	2,330	25%	39 h	15 h	31k
Apr 28, 2025	No storm report	9,284	100%	15 h	4.5 h	31k
May 22, 2019	No storm report	3,164	34%	17 h	9.8 h	30k
Apr 17, 2023	Winter storm	2,765	30%	15 h	3.2 h	27k
May 12, 2022	Thunderstorms	8,041	87%	12 h	7.0 h	27k
May 15, 2025	No storm report	1,535	17%	40 h	11 h	24k
Aug 26, 2024	Thunderstorms	4,078	44%	18 h	4.2 h	23k
Apr 30, 2023	Winter storm	4,029	43%	16 h	3.2 h	23k
May 18, 2022	Thunderstorms	4,293	46%	11 h	9.5 h	22k

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 Vilas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Winter storm 37%
No storm on record 28%
Thunderstorms 24%
Windstorm 10%
Tornadoes 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Vilas

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
Northern States Power Co	Investor Owned	309	110	1.15	15.6	223k
Bayfield Electric Coop, Inc	WI	–	–	–	18.6	70k
Price Electric Coop Inc	WI	404	404	2.48	20.2	56k
City of Eagle River	Municipal	–	–	–	14.8	1.1k

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.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Vilas (this county) 44 h
Forest 26 h
Iron 23 h
Oneida 17 h
Gogebic, MI 15 h
Iron, MI 12 h
Price 1.3 h

Across Wisconsin

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Wisconsin counties →

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 9,284 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 →