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2022 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 10.8 hours, a total of 91K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 660th 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 Washburn 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 07:45 | December 17, 2022 23:00 | 2d 15h | 3,482 | 69K |
| 2 | December 22, 2022 16:15 | December 22, 2022 23:00 | 6h 45m | 1,124 | 3,706 |
| 3 | December 14, 2022 15:30 | December 15, 2022 03:30 | 12h | 659 | 1,997 |
| 4 | July 10, 2022 22:30 | July 11, 2022 07:15 | 8h 45m | 537 | 1,577 |
| 5 | March 6, 2022 02:15 | March 6, 2022 23:15 | 21h | 414 | 4,537 |
| 6 | November 7, 2022 00:45 | November 7, 2022 05:15 | 4h 30m | 360 | 851 |
| 7 | August 3, 2022 02:15 | August 4, 2022 03:00 | 1d | 339 | 3,321 |
| 8 | May 11, 2022 19:45 | May 11, 2022 20:15 | 30m | 277 | 135 |
| 9 | December 25, 2022 15:00 | December 25, 2022 17:30 | 2h 30m | 259 | 562 |
| 10 | March 5, 2022 10:30 | March 6, 2022 00:00 | 13h 30m | 200 | 734 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 13 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Washburn 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 |
| 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 |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spooner - (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 ÷ 8,409 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. Washburn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washburn 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/washburn-county