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2017 Burnett County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Burnett County, WI went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1543rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Burnett 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 | June 11, 2017 14:45 | June 12, 2017 06:30 | 15h 45m | 3,212 | 11K |
| 2 | December 5, 2017 05:45 | December 5, 2017 09:00 | 3h 15m | 1,301 | 2,278 |
| 3 | August 9, 2017 20:15 | August 9, 2017 20:30 | 15m | 1,287 | 322 |
| 4 | July 31, 2017 20:45 | July 31, 2017 23:30 | 2h 45m | 730 | 695 |
| 5 | June 28, 2017 16:30 | June 28, 2017 16:45 | 15m | 729 | 182 |
| 6 | September 20, 2017 08:00 | September 20, 2017 13:30 | 5h 30m | 651 | 2,094 |
| 7 | November 13, 2017 06:00 | November 13, 2017 13:00 | 7h | 611 | 1,115 |
| 8 | June 10, 2017 17:45 | June 10, 2017 23:15 | 5h 30m | 442 | 1,409 |
| 9 | June 28, 2017 14:45 | June 28, 2017 15:15 | 30m | 439 | 220 |
| 10 | July 6, 2017 09:45 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 13h | 209 | 528 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 13 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Burnett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2017 | 56 min | 0.68 | 56 min | 0.68 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2017 | 11.4 hrs | 2.97 | 63 min | 1.17 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.71 | 43 min | 0.76 |
| Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,409 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. Burnett County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burnett 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/burnett-county