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2020 Burnett County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Burnett County, WI went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2551st 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 Burnett 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 | July 8, 2020 14:00 | July 8, 2020 15:30 | 1h 30m | 5,604 | 4,203 |
| 2 | October 30, 2020 13:45 | October 30, 2020 14:15 | 30m | 1,150 | 302 |
| 3 | August 15, 2020 02:00 | August 17, 2020 19:45 | 2d 17h | 1,148 | 1,052 |
| 4 | February 18, 2020 00:00 | February 18, 2020 01:45 | 1h 45m | 1,123 | 1,813 |
| 5 | March 22, 2020 16:45 | March 22, 2020 18:15 | 1h 30m | 1,123 | 438 |
| 6 | April 7, 2020 13:15 | April 7, 2020 13:45 | 30m | 1,122 | 561 |
| 7 | September 19, 2020 16:15 | September 19, 2020 19:00 | 2h 45m | 681 | 577 |
| 8 | November 4, 2020 19:30 | November 4, 2020 19:45 | 15m | 481 | 120 |
| 9 | May 27, 2020 02:15 | May 27, 2020 02:30 | 15m | 192 | 48 |
| 10 | June 20, 2020 14:15 | June 20, 2020 19:00 | 4h 45m | 96 | 456 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 9 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2020 | 2.8 hrs | 1.16 | 54 min | 0.58 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2020 | 4.7 hrs | 1.68 | 3.5 hrs | 1.47 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 1.75 | 42 min | 0.70 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/burnett-county