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2023 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2608th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 27, 2023 22:00 | July 28, 2023 12:30 | 14h 30m | 2,667 | 8,894 |
| 2 | July 19, 2023 23:30 | July 20, 2023 02:15 | 2h 45m | 2,664 | 5,441 |
| 3 | July 15, 2023 14:30 | July 15, 2023 17:15 | 2h 45m | 1,058 | 1,412 |
| 4 | April 12, 2023 12:15 | April 12, 2023 14:00 | 1h 45m | 868 | 564 |
| 5 | January 4, 2023 00:30 | January 4, 2023 12:15 | 11h 45m | 774 | 5,221 |
| 6 | January 6, 2023 12:15 | January 6, 2023 16:15 | 4h | 529 | 1,857 |
| 7 | July 28, 2023 15:45 | July 28, 2023 17:15 | 1h 30m | 494 | 250 |
| 8 | July 26, 2023 01:15 | July 26, 2023 01:45 | 30m | 400 | 150 |
| 9 | August 11, 2023 21:45 | August 12, 2023 10:30 | 12h 45m | 380 | 545 |
| 10 | May 7, 2023 04:30 | May 7, 2023 06:15 | 1h 45m | 356 | 623 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 21 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 Barron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.09 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.48 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2023 | 1.8 hrs | 0.84 | 79 min | 0.81 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 | 40 min | 0.65 |
| Rice Lake Utilities | 2018 | 23 min | 0.29 | 5 min | - |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barron - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cumberland - (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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 29,231 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. Barron County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Barron County, WI annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/wisconsin/barron-county