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2021 Burnett County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Burnett County, WI went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 9,053 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.7 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2678th 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 Burnett 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 | May 14, 2021 16:30 | May 14, 2021 19:45 | 3h 15m | 2,072 | 644 |
| 2 | May 11, 2021 16:45 | May 11, 2021 17:00 | 15m | 1,642 | 411 |
| 3 | December 16, 2021 09:00 | December 16, 2021 10:00 | 1h | 1,173 | 884 |
| 4 | June 25, 2021 09:15 | June 25, 2021 10:15 | 1h | 1,161 | 934 |
| 5 | October 17, 2021 21:45 | October 18, 2021 21:45 | 1d | 760 | 1,604 |
| 6 | June 1, 2021 18:00 | June 1, 2021 18:15 | 15m | 594 | 149 |
| 7 | August 24, 2021 13:30 | August 24, 2021 14:15 | 45m | 483 | 362 |
| 8 | September 9, 2021 03:00 | September 9, 2021 05:45 | 2h 45m | 420 | 358 |
| 9 | August 25, 2021 20:45 | August 26, 2021 00:00 | 3h 15m | 180 | 395 |
| 10 | May 8, 2021 13:00 | May 8, 2021 15:45 | 2h 45m | 161 | 243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 17 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Burnett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2021 | 65 min | 0.76 | 47 min | 0.60 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2021 | 2.7 hrs | 1.32 | 2.7 hrs | 1.32 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2021 | 54 min | 0.70 | 43 min | 0.63 |
| 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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,409 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. Burnett County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burnett 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/burnett-county