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2017 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 65K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1558th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2017
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 16, 2017 22:00 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 19h 30m | 4,176 | 9,615 |
| 2 | June 11, 2017 14:15 | June 12, 2017 20:15 | 1d 6h | 3,329 | 24K |
| 3 | July 6, 2017 10:15 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 12h 30m | 2,726 | 10K |
| 4 | July 10, 2017 07:00 | July 10, 2017 10:30 | 3h 30m | 1,273 | 3,183 |
| 5 | November 3, 2017 03:15 | November 3, 2017 03:30 | 15m | 1,270 | 318 |
| 6 | October 2, 2017 08:45 | October 2, 2017 18:30 | 9h 45m | 1,247 | 1,244 |
| 7 | June 26, 2017 14:30 | June 26, 2017 23:45 | 9h 15m | 852 | 1,989 |
| 8 | November 2, 2017 02:30 | November 2, 2017 08:45 | 6h 15m | 850 | 2,979 |
| 9 | July 17, 2017 22:30 | July 18, 2017 01:15 | 2h 45m | 759 | 1,308 |
| 10 | August 26, 2017 16:15 | August 26, 2017 21:15 | 5h | 718 | 2,928 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 15 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 4.6 hrs | 1.14 | 1.9 hrs | 0.73 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2017 | 11.4 hrs | 2.97 | 63 min | 1.17 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2017 | 1.8 hrs | 0.93 | 48 min | 0.68 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.71 | 43 min | 0.76 |
| Rice Lake Utilities | 2017 | 75 min | 0.51 | 13 min | - |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/wisconsin/barron-county