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2016 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 14K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 1461st 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 Washburn 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 | June 15, 2016 18:45 | June 15, 2016 21:30 | 2h 45m | 1,093 | 3,006 |
| 2 | June 26, 2016 07:45 | June 27, 2016 03:00 | 19h 15m | 1,089 | 6,748 |
| 3 | July 21, 2016 21:00 | July 22, 2016 09:30 | 12h 30m | 693 | 795 |
| 4 | September 5, 2016 06:45 | September 5, 2016 08:45 | 2h | 690 | 1,254 |
| 5 | July 1, 2016 04:45 | July 1, 2016 05:45 | 1h | 291 | 259 |
| 6 | June 30, 2016 22:45 | July 1, 2016 00:45 | 2h | 226 | 452 |
| 7 | July 1, 2016 02:15 | July 1, 2016 02:45 | 30m | 226 | 113 |
| 8 | July 24, 2016 08:30 | July 24, 2016 11:30 | 3h | 175 | 204 |
| 9 | January 15, 2016 16:15 | January 15, 2016 19:00 | 2h 45m | 73 | 57 |
| 10 | June 19, 2016 17:45 | June 19, 2016 23:00 | 5h 15m | 59 | 32 |
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 Washburn 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 |
| East Central Energy | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 78 min | 1.00 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2016 | 4.8 hrs | 1.59 | 2.7 hrs | 1.23 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2016 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 | 56 min | 0.82 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/washburn-county