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2022 Rusk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rusk County, WI went without power for an average of 16.5 hours, a total of 170K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 408th 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 Rusk 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 | December 15, 2022 06:45 | December 19, 2022 02:00 | 3d 19h | 4,418 | 159K |
| 2 | May 11, 2022 19:45 | May 11, 2022 20:15 | 30m | 2,867 | 872 |
| 3 | May 12, 2022 09:00 | May 12, 2022 10:15 | 1h 15m | 2,246 | 2,808 |
| 4 | July 11, 2022 14:30 | July 11, 2022 19:45 | 5h 15m | 651 | 1,684 |
| 5 | May 30, 2022 21:30 | May 30, 2022 23:30 | 2h | 421 | 528 |
| 6 | December 20, 2022 22:45 | December 21, 2022 01:45 | 3h | 391 | 685 |
| 7 | December 14, 2022 14:45 | December 14, 2022 23:45 | 9h | 299 | 569 |
| 8 | June 20, 2022 07:00 | June 20, 2022 13:00 | 6h | 290 | 1,578 |
| 9 | May 31, 2022 16:15 | May 31, 2022 18:30 | 2h 15m | 141 | 317 |
| 10 | April 4, 2022 10:45 | April 4, 2022 13:45 | 3h | 130 | 390 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 10 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Rusk 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2022 | 19.0 hrs | 2.80 | 4.1 hrs | 1.77 |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,344 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county