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2023 Eau Claire County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Eau Claire County, WI went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 63K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2621st 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 Eau Claire 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 | November 22, 2023 17:00 | November 22, 2023 20:15 | 3h 15m | 8,668 | 8,373 |
| 2 | July 20, 2023 01:45 | July 20, 2023 08:00 | 6h 15m | 7,095 | 9,472 |
| 3 | September 23, 2023 02:15 | September 23, 2023 06:15 | 4h | 2,816 | 9,254 |
| 4 | July 14, 2023 09:15 | July 14, 2023 18:00 | 8h 45m | 2,190 | 3,456 |
| 5 | April 5, 2023 16:00 | April 5, 2023 16:30 | 30m | 2,187 | 1,094 |
| 6 | January 6, 2023 09:30 | January 6, 2023 12:45 | 3h 15m | 1,877 | 4,534 |
| 7 | July 4, 2023 01:00 | July 4, 2023 10:45 | 9h 45m | 1,470 | 2,008 |
| 8 | June 8, 2023 12:15 | June 8, 2023 13:45 | 1h 30m | 965 | 251 |
| 9 | January 24, 2023 18:30 | January 24, 2023 20:15 | 1h 45m | 692 | 174 |
| 10 | October 4, 2023 16:15 | October 4, 2023 20:30 | 4h 15m | 556 | 773 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 41 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Eau Claire 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 |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.00 | 82 min | 0.77 |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (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 ÷ 55,392 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. Eau Claire County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Eau Claire 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/eau-claire-county