When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Forest County, WI?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Forest County, WI right now.
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Elsewhere in Wisconsin: 132 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 4:16 AM CDT.
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Who serves Forest County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Wisconsin Public Service and We Energies, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Forest County, WI
Last significant outage: Sep 9, 2026 — peaked at 288 customers, restored in ~5.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Forest County, WI
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 231 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
Largest on record: ~9,526 customers out in March 2025, restored after about 4.8 days. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered

Communities in Forest County include Crandon, Alvin, Argonne, Armstrong Creek, Blackwell, Caswell, Freedom and Hiles. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Forest County, WI — live power outage tracker