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2021 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.7 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2564th 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 Washburn 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 03:30 | December 16, 2021 21:15 | 17h 45m | 731 | 4,780 |
| 2 | March 3, 2021 16:15 | March 3, 2021 18:45 | 2h 30m | 347 | 783 |
| 3 | September 20, 2021 22:30 | September 21, 2021 08:00 | 9h 30m | 263 | 1,742 |
| 4 | December 12, 2021 04:15 | December 12, 2021 09:30 | 5h 15m | 243 | 728 |
| 5 | May 6, 2021 16:00 | May 6, 2021 20:00 | 4h | 117 | 259 |
| 6 | July 27, 2021 03:00 | July 27, 2021 07:15 | 4h 15m | 98 | 247 |
| 7 | November 10, 2021 18:30 | November 10, 2021 19:45 | 1h 15m | 84 | 105 |
| 8 | May 24, 2021 16:15 | May 24, 2021 16:30 | 15m | 68 | 17 |
| 9 | September 2, 2021 12:00 | September 2, 2021 14:00 | 2h | 65 | 130 |
| 10 | July 24, 2021 04:15 | July 24, 2021 11:30 | 7h 15m | 57 | 268 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 5 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2021; 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, 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/washburn-county