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2018 Burnett County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Burnett County, WI went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 7,590 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2383rd 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 Burnett 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 | October 6, 2018 08:00 | October 8, 2018 12:00 | 2d 4h | 2,392 | 1,368 |
| 2 | May 26, 2018 22:15 | May 27, 2018 03:45 | 5h 30m | 1,623 | 490 |
| 3 | May 29, 2018 21:45 | May 30, 2018 03:00 | 5h 15m | 1,133 | 912 |
| 4 | February 8, 2018 13:30 | February 8, 2018 22:15 | 8h 45m | 961 | 1,424 |
| 5 | October 26, 2018 15:00 | October 26, 2018 15:30 | 30m | 129 | 40 |
| 6 | August 27, 2018 20:45 | August 27, 2018 22:15 | 1h 30m | 117 | 169 |
| 7 | May 8, 2018 14:15 | May 8, 2018 19:30 | 5h 15m | 109 | 70 |
| 8 | August 11, 2018 01:30 | August 11, 2018 04:15 | 2h 45m | 97 | 264 |
| 9 | July 18, 2018 12:45 | July 18, 2018 14:15 | 1h 30m | 95 | 143 |
| 10 | July 18, 2018 15:15 | July 18, 2018 15:30 | 15m | 95 | 24 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2018 | 71 min | 1.05 | 54 min | 0.88 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2018 | 52 min | 0.77 | 37 min | 0.56 |
| 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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; 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, 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/burnett-county