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2020 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2478th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 18, 2020 05:15 | April 18, 2020 07:15 | 2h | 3,045 | 3,311 |
| 2 | May 26, 2020 22:15 | May 27, 2020 06:45 | 8h 30m | 2,195 | 4,295 |
| 3 | August 9, 2020 06:00 | August 9, 2020 17:00 | 11h | 1,331 | 7,660 |
| 4 | August 29, 2020 04:00 | August 29, 2020 17:45 | 13h 45m | 1,020 | 1,150 |
| 5 | August 15, 2020 01:45 | August 15, 2020 17:30 | 15h 45m | 977 | 4,678 |
| 6 | August 22, 2020 07:15 | August 22, 2020 08:00 | 45m | 972 | 729 |
| 7 | October 19, 2020 13:45 | October 19, 2020 22:45 | 9h | 972 | 3,189 |
| 8 | May 27, 2020 12:30 | May 27, 2020 22:45 | 10h 15m | 971 | 255 |
| 9 | October 5, 2020 17:30 | October 5, 2020 19:00 | 1h 30m | 846 | 1,269 |
| 10 | July 18, 2020 07:30 | July 19, 2020 18:00 | 1d 10h | 781 | 8,874 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 25 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.52 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2020 | 4.7 hrs | 1.68 | 3.5 hrs | 1.47 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2020 | 68 min | 0.66 | 57 min | 0.60 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 1.75 | 42 min | 0.70 |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/wisconsin/barron-county