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2019 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2148th 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 Washburn 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 | May 25, 2019 17:30 | May 26, 2019 03:45 | 10h 15m | 694 | 5,554 |
| 2 | June 11, 2019 17:30 | June 11, 2019 20:15 | 2h 45m | 694 | 1,161 |
| 3 | July 1, 2019 17:30 | July 1, 2019 23:30 | 6h | 488 | 558 |
| 4 | June 30, 2019 11:30 | July 1, 2019 02:30 | 15h | 442 | 2,842 |
| 5 | April 16, 2019 14:45 | April 16, 2019 20:00 | 5h 15m | 350 | 1,097 |
| 6 | April 25, 2019 13:15 | April 26, 2019 14:00 | 1d | 255 | 856 |
| 7 | July 15, 2019 20:45 | July 16, 2019 15:15 | 18h 30m | 108 | 611 |
| 8 | July 9, 2019 00:30 | July 9, 2019 03:45 | 3h 15m | 96 | 309 |
| 9 | October 11, 2019 07:30 | October 11, 2019 09:30 | 2h | 88 | 176 |
| 10 | August 29, 2019 13:30 | August 29, 2019 15:15 | 1h 45m | 84 | 64 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 7 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 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 |
| 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 84% of Wisconsin's customers in 2019; 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, 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/washburn-county