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2015 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 4,478 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2048th 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 Washburn 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 | May 8, 2015 06:15 | May 8, 2015 09:30 | 3h 15m | 444 | 898 |
| 2 | May 29, 2015 05:00 | May 29, 2015 08:30 | 3h 30m | 204 | 646 |
| 3 | June 22, 2015 15:15 | June 22, 2015 21:45 | 6h 30m | 201 | 399 |
| 4 | June 25, 2015 02:00 | June 25, 2015 03:45 | 1h 45m | 198 | 150 |
| 5 | June 5, 2015 01:30 | June 5, 2015 04:30 | 3h | 125 | 163 |
| 6 | June 20, 2015 19:45 | June 20, 2015 21:45 | 2h | 118 | 188 |
| 7 | August 19, 2015 09:45 | August 19, 2015 12:15 | 2h 30m | 104 | 228 |
| 8 | October 18, 2015 08:15 | October 18, 2015 14:30 | 6h 15m | 90 | 508 |
| 9 | November 13, 2015 01:30 | November 13, 2015 02:45 | 1h 15m | 86 | 86 |
| 10 | December 7, 2015 19:45 | December 7, 2015 22:45 | 3h | 71 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 7 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Washburn 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2015 | 84 min | 1.00 | 75 min | 0.96 |
| 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 |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spooner - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 8,409 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. Washburn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washburn 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/washburn-county