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2019 Chippewa County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Chippewa County, WI went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2280th 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 Chippewa 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 23:45 | July 21, 2019 22:00 | 1d 22h | 1,988 | 18K |
| 2 | September 10, 2019 00:45 | September 10, 2019 04:45 | 4h | 1,487 | 1,519 |
| 3 | May 29, 2019 13:00 | May 29, 2019 15:15 | 2h 15m | 840 | 1,113 |
| 4 | June 9, 2019 12:45 | June 9, 2019 15:00 | 2h 15m | 840 | 487 |
| 5 | April 7, 2019 06:45 | April 7, 2019 08:15 | 1h 30m | 827 | 1,153 |
| 6 | November 6, 2019 05:00 | November 6, 2019 13:15 | 8h 15m | 663 | 4,053 |
| 7 | November 27, 2019 06:45 | November 28, 2019 04:00 | 21h 15m | 619 | 4,298 |
| 8 | April 28, 2019 04:30 | April 28, 2019 06:15 | 1h 45m | 557 | 975 |
| 9 | September 3, 2019 04:30 | September 3, 2019 17:15 | 12h 45m | 428 | 1,200 |
| 10 | September 11, 2019 11:45 | September 11, 2019 15:00 | 3h 15m | 311 | 473 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 31 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clark Electric Coop - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bloomer Electric & Water Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cornell | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Cadott - (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 ÷ 31,538 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county