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2015 Polk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Polk County, WI went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2113th 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 Polk 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 | July 13, 2015 03:30 | July 14, 2015 04:30 | 1d 1h | 1,032 | 6,051 |
| 2 | November 14, 2015 14:15 | November 14, 2015 14:45 | 30m | 927 | 232 |
| 3 | July 7, 2015 15:00 | July 7, 2015 17:15 | 2h 15m | 398 | 247 |
| 4 | July 18, 2015 06:45 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 19h | 390 | 1,922 |
| 5 | November 15, 2015 13:15 | November 15, 2015 22:45 | 9h 30m | 267 | 1,222 |
| 6 | December 5, 2015 13:45 | December 5, 2015 16:00 | 2h 15m | 231 | 370 |
| 7 | June 3, 2015 21:15 | June 4, 2015 00:30 | 3h 15m | 181 | 318 |
| 8 | August 23, 2015 19:15 | August 23, 2015 23:45 | 4h 30m | 156 | 459 |
| 9 | August 31, 2015 15:00 | August 31, 2015 16:30 | 1h 30m | 147 | 142 |
| 10 | October 23, 2015 17:45 | October 23, 2015 18:45 | 1h | 129 | 97 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 13 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Polk 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 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2015 | 1.9 hrs | 1.28 | 59 min | 1.08 |
| St Croix Electric Coop | 2015 | 1.6 hrs | 0.65 | 54 min | 0.40 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 33,361 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county