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2017 Polk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Polk County, WI went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1398th 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 Polk 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 | July 12, 2017 07:45 | July 13, 2017 04:30 | 20h 45m | 10,357 | 43K |
| 2 | September 20, 2017 09:00 | September 20, 2017 09:30 | 30m | 2,812 | 1,030 |
| 3 | June 11, 2017 14:30 | June 13, 2017 01:45 | 1d 11h | 2,049 | 16K |
| 4 | September 8, 2017 16:15 | September 8, 2017 19:45 | 3h 30m | 1,990 | 5,732 |
| 5 | November 24, 2017 08:00 | November 24, 2017 12:00 | 4h | 1,786 | 6,762 |
| 6 | September 11, 2017 16:00 | September 11, 2017 20:15 | 4h 15m | 1,388 | 352 |
| 7 | December 5, 2017 05:00 | December 5, 2017 21:30 | 16h 30m | 1,049 | 2,549 |
| 8 | July 17, 2017 22:30 | July 18, 2017 00:30 | 2h | 815 | 1,606 |
| 9 | November 24, 2017 18:45 | November 24, 2017 23:00 | 4h 15m | 592 | 154 |
| 10 | July 31, 2017 20:45 | July 31, 2017 22:30 | 1h 45m | 556 | 541 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 33 reached 100+ customers, 7 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Polk 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 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.71 | 43 min | 0.76 |
| St Croix Electric Coop | 2017 | 78 min | 0.58 | 58 min | 0.34 |
| 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 ÷ 33,361 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county