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2018 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,491 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 68th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2545th 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 Washburn 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 | May 29, 2018 23:30 | May 30, 2018 05:00 | 5h 30m | 256 | 392 |
| 2 | June 17, 2018 11:15 | June 18, 2018 16:15 | 1d 5h | 143 | 500 |
| 3 | November 8, 2018 17:30 | November 8, 2018 20:00 | 2h 30m | 123 | 233 |
| 4 | July 25, 2018 22:15 | July 26, 2018 00:00 | 1h 45m | 104 | 182 |
| 5 | February 8, 2018 08:30 | February 8, 2018 13:30 | 5h | 95 | 452 |
| 6 | October 4, 2018 00:30 | October 5, 2018 03:15 | 1d 2h | 89 | 366 |
| 7 | April 22, 2018 13:45 | April 22, 2018 16:00 | 2h 15m | 56 | 126 |
| 8 | October 24, 2018 14:45 | October 24, 2018 16:45 | 2h | 52 | 104 |
| 9 | July 4, 2018 15:45 | July 4, 2018 18:30 | 2h 45m | 40 | 110 |
| 10 | October 27, 2018 12:15 | October 27, 2018 14:45 | 2h 30m | 39 | 79 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; 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, 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/washburn-county