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2016 Chippewa County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Chippewa County, WI went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 18K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 1976th 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 Chippewa 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 | May 25, 2016 20:15 | May 26, 2016 02:00 | 5h 45m | 2,345 | 4,902 |
| 2 | April 29, 2016 12:15 | April 29, 2016 16:30 | 4h 15m | 1,526 | 1,961 |
| 3 | June 20, 2016 17:15 | June 20, 2016 21:00 | 3h 45m | 684 | 1,882 |
| 4 | July 21, 2016 11:15 | July 21, 2016 16:45 | 5h 30m | 193 | 936 |
| 5 | June 10, 2016 21:30 | June 11, 2016 17:45 | 20h 15m | 172 | 2,530 |
| 6 | August 5, 2016 02:45 | August 5, 2016 06:15 | 3h 30m | 143 | 438 |
| 7 | August 17, 2016 00:00 | August 17, 2016 05:00 | 5h | 138 | 372 |
| 8 | February 17, 2016 16:15 | February 17, 2016 17:30 | 1h 15m | 120 | 117 |
| 9 | July 22, 2016 19:45 | July 23, 2016 00:15 | 4h 30m | 95 | 113 |
| 10 | August 2, 2016 13:30 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 2h 45m | 91 | 51 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 8 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clark Electric Coop - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bloomer Electric & Water Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cornell | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Cadott - (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 ÷ 31,538 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county