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2020 Rusk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rusk County, WI went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 7,655 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2756th 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 Rusk 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 | October 21, 2020 03:00 | October 21, 2020 10:30 | 7h 30m | 810 | 4,441 |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 15:30 | July 8, 2020 16:00 | 30m | 294 | 147 |
| 3 | July 16, 2020 11:30 | July 16, 2020 15:00 | 3h 30m | 294 | 815 |
| 4 | January 17, 2020 19:15 | January 18, 2020 00:45 | 5h 30m | 136 | 748 |
| 5 | November 19, 2020 17:00 | November 19, 2020 19:30 | 2h 30m | 63 | 113 |
| 6 | July 19, 2020 05:15 | July 19, 2020 13:00 | 7h 45m | 40 | 249 |
| 7 | July 21, 2020 22:30 | July 22, 2020 00:15 | 1h 45m | 39 | 68 |
| 8 | July 15, 2020 14:00 | July 15, 2020 15:45 | 1h 45m | 36 | 22 |
| 9 | October 6, 2020 23:30 | October 7, 2020 09:00 | 9h 30m | 33 | 166 |
| 10 | July 9, 2020 05:15 | July 9, 2020 14:45 | 9h 30m | 29 | 114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Rusk 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2020 | 4.7 hrs | 1.68 | 3.5 hrs | 1.47 |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,344 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county