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2019 Burnett County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Burnett County, WI went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 24K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1817th 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 Burnett 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 19:45 | July 23, 2019 12:45 | 3d 17h | 1,805 | 8,049 |
| 2 | June 30, 2019 13:15 | June 30, 2019 14:45 | 1h 30m | 1,422 | 1,519 |
| 3 | September 3, 2019 03:45 | September 3, 2019 10:30 | 6h 45m | 1,362 | 3,196 |
| 4 | July 28, 2019 20:30 | July 29, 2019 01:30 | 5h | 1,142 | 1,565 |
| 5 | September 18, 2019 18:15 | September 18, 2019 23:00 | 4h 45m | 1,141 | 582 |
| 6 | August 5, 2019 16:15 | August 5, 2019 16:45 | 30m | 1,136 | 403 |
| 7 | May 19, 2019 20:15 | May 19, 2019 21:15 | 1h | 1,133 | 890 |
| 8 | July 26, 2019 20:15 | July 27, 2019 12:45 | 16h 30m | 593 | 196 |
| 9 | August 26, 2019 17:45 | August 26, 2019 20:45 | 3h | 592 | 1,776 |
| 10 | August 5, 2019 18:15 | August 5, 2019 20:15 | 2h | 591 | 1,100 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 14 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 84% of Wisconsin's customers in 2019; 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, 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/burnett-county