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2023 Burnett County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Burnett County, WI went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2224th 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 Burnett 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 19, 2023 22:30 | July 20, 2023 02:00 | 3h 30m | 5,068 | 5,148 |
| 2 | July 31, 2023 18:00 | July 31, 2023 20:30 | 2h 30m | 2,132 | 817 |
| 3 | August 18, 2023 14:30 | August 18, 2023 19:00 | 4h 30m | 1,495 | 409 |
| 4 | July 31, 2023 14:45 | July 31, 2023 16:45 | 2h | 1,357 | 1,319 |
| 5 | October 4, 2023 14:30 | October 4, 2023 17:30 | 3h | 1,218 | 324 |
| 6 | August 29, 2023 00:00 | August 29, 2023 09:15 | 9h 15m | 1,066 | 3,058 |
| 7 | July 27, 2023 15:45 | July 27, 2023 18:00 | 2h 15m | 802 | 537 |
| 8 | September 6, 2023 13:00 | September 6, 2023 23:00 | 10h | 611 | 335 |
| 9 | September 5, 2023 20:15 | September 5, 2023 21:15 | 1h | 406 | 214 |
| 10 | August 2, 2023 17:30 | August 2, 2023 21:30 | 4h | 305 | 243 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 19 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Burnett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2023 | 82 min | 0.79 | 63 min | 0.67 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.48 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 | 40 min | 0.65 |
| 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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,409 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. Burnett County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burnett 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/burnett-county