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2018 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2471st of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2018
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 13, 2018 00:00 | July 13, 2018 08:30 | 8h 30m | 1,758 | 1,077 |
| 2 | May 29, 2018 16:15 | May 31, 2018 18:45 | 2d 2h | 1,341 | 4,609 |
| 3 | June 17, 2018 21:45 | June 18, 2018 17:15 | 19h 30m | 1,054 | 4,184 |
| 4 | February 8, 2018 09:00 | February 8, 2018 09:15 | 15m | 726 | 182 |
| 5 | May 29, 2018 00:00 | May 29, 2018 13:15 | 13h 15m | 521 | 378 |
| 6 | March 5, 2018 17:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 7h 45m | 251 | 598 |
| 7 | January 6, 2018 22:00 | January 7, 2018 02:00 | 4h | 243 | 961 |
| 8 | July 13, 2018 11:45 | July 13, 2018 16:15 | 4h 30m | 186 | 103 |
| 9 | June 16, 2018 15:00 | June 16, 2018 19:00 | 4h | 175 | 230 |
| 10 | September 24, 2018 10:45 | September 24, 2018 13:15 | 2h 30m | 174 | 358 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 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 Barron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 0.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 1.34 | 60 min | 0.60 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2018 | 52 min | 0.77 | 37 min | 0.56 |
| Rice Lake Utilities | 2018 | 23 min | 0.29 | 5 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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/wisconsin/barron-county