County annual report · FIPS 55129
2017 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1397th 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 Washburn 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 14:30 | June 14, 2017 01:00 | 2d 10h | 1,510 | 15K |
| 2 | July 6, 2017 10:45 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 12h | 690 | 3,320 |
| 3 | July 10, 2017 07:00 | July 10, 2017 10:15 | 3h 15m | 688 | 1,721 |
| 4 | September 20, 2017 09:00 | September 20, 2017 09:15 | 15m | 638 | 160 |
| 5 | June 8, 2017 09:45 | June 8, 2017 12:45 | 3h | 205 | 448 |
| 6 | June 8, 2017 13:30 | June 8, 2017 15:30 | 2h | 196 | 135 |
| 7 | May 25, 2017 22:00 | May 25, 2017 22:15 | 15m | 150 | 38 |
| 8 | November 3, 2017 03:15 | November 3, 2017 03:30 | 15m | 109 | 27 |
| 9 | April 10, 2017 16:45 | April 10, 2017 18:45 | 2h | 103 | 190 |
| 10 | October 2, 2017 22:30 | October 3, 2017 04:00 | 5h 30m | 99 | 319 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 9 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/washburn-county