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2022 Chippewa County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Chippewa County, WI went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 129K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1635th 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 Chippewa 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 20:30 | 45m | 15,629 | 5,367 |
| 2 | December 15, 2022 07:00 | December 18, 2022 05:00 | 2d 22h | 4,277 | 97K |
| 3 | June 20, 2022 13:45 | June 20, 2022 20:15 | 6h 30m | 1,566 | 802 |
| 4 | November 12, 2022 18:30 | November 12, 2022 19:30 | 1h | 1,532 | 826 |
| 5 | May 9, 2022 22:30 | May 10, 2022 02:45 | 4h 15m | 765 | 2,593 |
| 6 | April 26, 2022 14:15 | April 26, 2022 19:00 | 4h 45m | 759 | 3,048 |
| 7 | March 14, 2022 17:15 | March 14, 2022 17:45 | 30m | 747 | 374 |
| 8 | July 1, 2022 03:30 | July 1, 2022 06:00 | 2h 30m | 693 | 1,733 |
| 9 | September 20, 2022 13:30 | September 20, 2022 13:45 | 15m | 593 | 148 |
| 10 | June 30, 2022 05:45 | June 30, 2022 07:30 | 1h 45m | 592 | 1,036 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 29 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clark Electric Coop - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bloomer Electric & Water Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cornell | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Cadott - (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 ÷ 31,538 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county