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2022 Polk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Polk County, WI went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2338th 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 Polk 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 17:30 | May 11, 2022 23:30 | 6h | 4,869 | 1,993 |
| 2 | June 20, 2022 20:45 | June 21, 2022 04:15 | 7h 30m | 3,458 | 2,615 |
| 3 | September 26, 2022 19:00 | September 27, 2022 01:00 | 6h | 1,924 | 2,506 |
| 4 | June 24, 2022 05:00 | June 24, 2022 20:00 | 15h | 1,534 | 4,357 |
| 5 | May 6, 2022 23:45 | May 10, 2022 19:30 | 3d 19h | 1,438 | 11K |
| 6 | April 25, 2022 03:45 | April 25, 2022 05:15 | 1h 30m | 987 | 1,402 |
| 7 | December 15, 2022 10:45 | December 17, 2022 05:15 | 1d 18h | 860 | 7,375 |
| 8 | May 12, 2022 00:15 | May 12, 2022 20:30 | 20h 15m | 855 | 3,350 |
| 9 | August 27, 2022 05:15 | August 27, 2022 21:15 | 16h | 829 | 1,671 |
| 10 | June 26, 2022 06:00 | June 26, 2022 12:15 | 6h 15m | 736 | 2,101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 32 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Polk 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 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2022 | 1.7 hrs | 1.15 | 35 min | 0.52 |
| St Croix Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 | 1.7 hrs | 0.68 |
| 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 ÷ 33,361 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county