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2020 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 15K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2365th 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 Washburn 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 | August 9, 2020 06:00 | August 9, 2020 14:00 | 8h | 700 | 4,028 |
| 2 | May 27, 2020 02:15 | May 27, 2020 02:30 | 15m | 478 | 120 |
| 3 | July 19, 2020 03:00 | July 20, 2020 01:00 | 22h | 358 | 4,346 |
| 4 | August 21, 2020 20:30 | August 22, 2020 01:45 | 5h 15m | 348 | 1,198 |
| 5 | August 22, 2020 11:15 | August 22, 2020 13:30 | 2h 15m | 346 | 742 |
| 6 | September 17, 2020 15:15 | September 17, 2020 16:30 | 1h 15m | 255 | 319 |
| 7 | November 9, 2020 17:45 | November 9, 2020 20:15 | 2h 30m | 239 | 204 |
| 8 | March 13, 2020 18:30 | March 13, 2020 22:15 | 3h 45m | 233 | 388 |
| 9 | December 24, 2020 13:15 | December 24, 2020 18:00 | 4h 45m | 205 | 724 |
| 10 | July 18, 2020 08:00 | July 18, 2020 21:00 | 13h | 120 | 375 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 10 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 Washburn 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 |
| 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 |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spooner - (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 ÷ 8,409 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. Washburn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washburn 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/washburn-county