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2022 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1895th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2022
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 11, 2022 19:45 | May 11, 2022 20:15 | 30m | 3,606 | 1,744 |
| 2 | December 15, 2022 08:00 | December 18, 2022 16:15 | 3d 8h | 2,399 | 52K |
| 3 | August 27, 2022 05:15 | August 27, 2022 20:15 | 15h | 1,881 | 8,003 |
| 4 | October 17, 2022 16:00 | October 17, 2022 16:15 | 15m | 1,100 | 275 |
| 5 | December 14, 2022 13:30 | December 14, 2022 23:15 | 9h 45m | 915 | 3,598 |
| 6 | November 7, 2022 00:45 | November 7, 2022 05:30 | 4h 45m | 856 | 2,350 |
| 7 | October 13, 2022 11:45 | October 13, 2022 17:30 | 5h 45m | 855 | 3,263 |
| 8 | July 10, 2022 23:15 | July 11, 2022 06:15 | 7h | 852 | 2,825 |
| 9 | May 18, 2022 23:30 | May 19, 2022 04:30 | 5h | 835 | 2,916 |
| 10 | June 9, 2022 13:00 | June 9, 2022 17:15 | 4h 15m | 832 | 2,370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 24 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 Barron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 6.7 hrs | 1.68 | 2.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2022 | 19.0 hrs | 2.80 | 4.1 hrs | 1.77 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2022 | 3.6 hrs | 1.16 | 2.4 hrs | 0.82 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 1.15 | 35 min | 0.52 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/wisconsin/barron-county