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2022 Burnett County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Burnett County, WI went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2212th 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 Burnett 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 31, 2022 01:30 | May 31, 2022 05:30 | 4h | 1,176 | 1,476 |
| 2 | December 15, 2022 08:30 | December 18, 2022 00:00 | 2d 15h | 833 | 10K |
| 3 | August 29, 2022 05:15 | August 29, 2022 09:45 | 4h 30m | 537 | 1,534 |
| 4 | September 6, 2022 17:00 | September 6, 2022 17:30 | 30m | 511 | 256 |
| 5 | August 29, 2022 14:45 | August 29, 2022 17:00 | 2h 15m | 509 | 391 |
| 6 | May 31, 2022 15:00 | May 31, 2022 19:00 | 4h | 487 | 366 |
| 7 | August 1, 2022 00:15 | August 1, 2022 03:15 | 3h | 451 | 763 |
| 8 | December 14, 2022 14:15 | December 14, 2022 23:15 | 9h | 368 | 1,598 |
| 9 | September 26, 2022 19:45 | September 27, 2022 00:45 | 5h | 304 | 711 |
| 10 | December 20, 2022 18:30 | December 20, 2022 21:30 | 3h | 170 | 144 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 11 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 Burnett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 1.45 | 62 min | 0.70 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2022 | 19.0 hrs | 2.80 | 4.1 hrs | 1.77 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 1.15 | 35 min | 0.52 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/burnett-county