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2019 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 202K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 810th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2019
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 19, 2019 22:45 | July 27, 2019 18:15 | 7d 19h | 4,978 | 174K |
| 2 | May 25, 2019 17:30 | May 26, 2019 04:15 | 10h 45m | 1,302 | 10K |
| 3 | June 11, 2019 17:30 | June 11, 2019 19:30 | 2h | 1,302 | 2,079 |
| 4 | July 15, 2019 23:45 | July 17, 2019 00:00 | 1d | 1,168 | 1,600 |
| 5 | August 5, 2019 16:15 | August 6, 2019 02:00 | 9h 45m | 845 | 1,093 |
| 6 | March 14, 2019 19:15 | March 14, 2019 20:15 | 1h | 458 | 458 |
| 7 | June 30, 2019 11:45 | July 1, 2019 02:00 | 14h 15m | 359 | 2,254 |
| 8 | May 24, 2019 08:15 | May 24, 2019 10:00 | 1h 45m | 302 | 446 |
| 9 | June 7, 2019 00:30 | June 7, 2019 02:45 | 2h 15m | 286 | 251 |
| 10 | July 4, 2019 22:30 | July 5, 2019 03:30 | 5h | 278 | 781 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 20 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2019, 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 84% of Wisconsin's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/wisconsin/barron-county