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2015 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 46K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1438th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 17, 2015 10:15 | September 18, 2015 09:30 | 23h 15m | 1,362 | 3,937 |
| 2 | July 13, 2015 04:15 | July 14, 2015 05:15 | 1d 1h | 1,230 | 9,777 |
| 3 | November 13, 2015 01:30 | November 13, 2015 06:15 | 4h 45m | 699 | 2,643 |
| 4 | May 25, 2015 13:15 | May 25, 2015 15:15 | 2h | 498 | 927 |
| 5 | August 28, 2015 07:45 | August 28, 2015 10:15 | 2h 30m | 310 | 775 |
| 6 | August 21, 2015 23:15 | August 22, 2015 01:15 | 2h | 293 | 305 |
| 7 | July 8, 2015 18:15 | July 8, 2015 19:00 | 45m | 199 | 88 |
| 8 | August 20, 2015 07:45 | August 20, 2015 14:00 | 6h 15m | 142 | 356 |
| 9 | November 19, 2015 13:15 | November 19, 2015 15:30 | 2h 15m | 104 | 205 |
| 10 | June 26, 2015 05:15 | June 26, 2015 08:45 | 3h 30m | 91 | 296 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 9 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Barron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2015 | 2.4 hrs | 0.90 | 2.0 hrs | 0.82 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2015 | 2.0 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 1.06 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2015 | 3.1 hrs | 1.31 | 3.1 hrs | 1.31 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2015 | 1.9 hrs | 1.28 | 59 min | 1.08 |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barron - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cumberland - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rice Lake Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,231 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Barron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barron County, WI annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/wisconsin/barron-county