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2020 Chippewa County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Chippewa County, WI went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2671st 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 Chippewa 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 | May 7, 2020 15:00 | May 7, 2020 19:15 | 4h 15m | 2,418 | 3,025 |
| 2 | September 25, 2020 12:00 | September 25, 2020 13:30 | 1h 30m | 1,605 | 1,934 |
| 3 | April 20, 2020 22:00 | April 21, 2020 19:30 | 21h 30m | 1,119 | 7,614 |
| 4 | November 9, 2020 18:30 | November 9, 2020 21:15 | 2h 45m | 845 | 1,388 |
| 5 | June 29, 2020 12:00 | June 30, 2020 12:45 | 1d | 763 | 1,948 |
| 6 | May 25, 2020 15:30 | May 26, 2020 01:00 | 9h 30m | 567 | 1,473 |
| 7 | February 14, 2020 07:15 | February 14, 2020 11:45 | 4h 30m | 544 | 780 |
| 8 | August 22, 2020 12:30 | August 22, 2020 17:15 | 4h 45m | 309 | 503 |
| 9 | July 26, 2020 16:00 | July 26, 2020 19:00 | 3h | 261 | 328 |
| 10 | September 21, 2020 21:30 | September 22, 2020 04:45 | 7h 15m | 196 | 1,390 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 21 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/chippewa-county