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2016 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 1972nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2016
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 5, 2016 06:45 | September 5, 2016 17:00 | 10h 15m | 1,315 | 2,810 |
| 2 | July 21, 2016 10:00 | July 22, 2016 09:15 | 23h 15m | 1,257 | 3,105 |
| 3 | February 4, 2016 07:00 | February 4, 2016 18:30 | 11h 30m | 850 | 2,350 |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 21:00 | April 4, 2016 02:30 | 5h 30m | 509 | 1,656 |
| 5 | July 7, 2016 12:00 | July 7, 2016 17:15 | 5h 15m | 415 | 2,178 |
| 6 | July 6, 2016 04:30 | July 6, 2016 11:15 | 6h 45m | 315 | 1,035 |
| 7 | May 10, 2016 18:15 | May 10, 2016 19:45 | 1h 30m | 242 | 122 |
| 8 | January 19, 2016 19:30 | January 20, 2016 01:30 | 6h | 97 | 502 |
| 9 | July 22, 2016 23:00 | July 23, 2016 01:15 | 2h 15m | 83 | 187 |
| 10 | September 13, 2016 00:00 | September 13, 2016 00:45 | 45m | 79 | 50 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 7 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 5.5 hrs | 1.71 | 3.2 hrs | 1.47 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2016 | 4.8 hrs | 1.59 | 2.7 hrs | 1.23 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.63 | 1.8 hrs | 1.63 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 | 56 min | 0.82 |
| Rice Lake Utilities | 2016 | 20 min | 0.13 | - | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barron - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cumberland - (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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/wisconsin/barron-county