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2020 Polk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Polk County, WI went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 76K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2132nd 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 Polk 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 | March 18, 2020 12:15 | March 18, 2020 16:45 | 4h 30m | 3,443 | 12K |
| 2 | July 10, 2020 02:30 | July 10, 2020 17:00 | 14h 30m | 3,429 | 14K |
| 3 | July 4, 2020 17:00 | July 4, 2020 19:00 | 2h | 3,408 | 2,563 |
| 4 | July 4, 2020 00:45 | July 4, 2020 02:45 | 2h | 3,407 | 3,412 |
| 5 | April 7, 2020 16:00 | April 7, 2020 21:00 | 5h | 3,395 | 856 |
| 6 | July 2, 2020 19:00 | July 2, 2020 20:15 | 1h 15m | 2,250 | 1,125 |
| 7 | August 20, 2020 18:00 | August 20, 2020 20:30 | 2h 30m | 1,432 | 1,454 |
| 8 | July 18, 2020 07:15 | July 19, 2020 22:00 | 1d 14h | 1,056 | 8,343 |
| 9 | October 30, 2020 13:45 | October 30, 2020 18:30 | 4h 45m | 928 | 3,109 |
| 10 | December 23, 2020 21:15 | December 24, 2020 14:30 | 17h 15m | 915 | 3,932 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 35 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Polk 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 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 1.75 | 42 min | 0.70 |
| St Croix Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 | 1.7 hrs | 0.68 |
| 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 ÷ 33,361 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county