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2021 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.7 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2669th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 16, 2021 03:15 | December 17, 2021 20:30 | 1d 17h | 1,763 | 13K |
| 2 | February 24, 2021 14:15 | February 24, 2021 15:15 | 1h | 966 | 359 |
| 3 | May 19, 2021 09:00 | May 19, 2021 13:45 | 4h 45m | 848 | 2,125 |
| 4 | January 26, 2021 12:15 | January 26, 2021 12:30 | 15m | 819 | 205 |
| 5 | January 27, 2021 12:15 | January 27, 2021 12:30 | 15m | 819 | 205 |
| 6 | July 27, 2021 03:15 | July 27, 2021 05:45 | 2h 30m | 804 | 2,009 |
| 7 | September 17, 2021 09:15 | September 17, 2021 18:15 | 9h | 736 | 3,401 |
| 8 | June 26, 2021 13:15 | June 26, 2021 18:30 | 5h 15m | 344 | 107 |
| 9 | October 16, 2021 18:30 | October 16, 2021 21:30 | 3h | 213 | 518 |
| 10 | October 10, 2021 19:15 | October 10, 2021 21:45 | 2h 30m | 178 | 445 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 15 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Barron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | 1.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.32 | 2.7 hrs | 1.32 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | 0.92 | 76 min | 0.63 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2021 | 54 min | 0.70 | 43 min | 0.63 |
| Rice Lake Utilities | 2018 | 23 min | 0.29 | 5 min | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barron - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cumberland - (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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,231 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. Barron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barron County, WI annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/wisconsin/barron-county