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2020 Eau Claire County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Eau Claire County, WI went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2734th 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 Eau Claire 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 25, 2020 15:30 | May 26, 2020 05:00 | 13h 30m | 2,436 | 5,188 |
| 2 | April 20, 2020 22:00 | April 21, 2020 17:30 | 19h 30m | 2,371 | 8,174 |
| 3 | June 13, 2020 20:15 | June 14, 2020 00:15 | 4h | 2,180 | 1,687 |
| 4 | August 24, 2020 21:00 | August 25, 2020 02:30 | 5h 30m | 1,186 | 1,869 |
| 5 | May 23, 2020 22:00 | May 23, 2020 23:45 | 1h 45m | 1,142 | 692 |
| 6 | September 3, 2020 13:45 | September 3, 2020 18:00 | 4h 15m | 1,023 | 1,103 |
| 7 | March 6, 2020 00:45 | March 6, 2020 04:45 | 4h | 818 | 2,657 |
| 8 | August 9, 2020 00:00 | August 9, 2020 01:30 | 1h 30m | 752 | 750 |
| 9 | June 2, 2020 14:45 | June 3, 2020 13:15 | 22h 30m | 703 | 3,753 |
| 10 | July 3, 2020 04:30 | July 3, 2020 07:15 | 2h 45m | 687 | 1,718 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 31 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 Eau Claire 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 |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2020 | 88 min | 0.69 | 73 min | 0.59 |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 55,392 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. Eau Claire County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Eau Claire 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/eau-claire-county