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2023 Rusk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rusk County, WI went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2565th 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 Rusk 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 | February 12, 2023 18:00 | February 12, 2023 21:45 | 3h 45m | 1,064 | 2,658 |
| 2 | February 7, 2023 09:30 | February 7, 2023 13:00 | 3h 30m | 779 | 1,559 |
| 3 | December 23, 2023 06:30 | December 23, 2023 09:00 | 2h 30m | 699 | 1,044 |
| 4 | August 17, 2023 16:30 | August 17, 2023 19:00 | 2h 30m | 574 | 815 |
| 5 | July 20, 2023 05:00 | July 20, 2023 09:45 | 4h 45m | 432 | 764 |
| 6 | April 20, 2023 11:00 | April 20, 2023 12:30 | 1h 30m | 424 | 426 |
| 7 | May 7, 2023 05:00 | May 7, 2023 08:45 | 3h 45m | 291 | 935 |
| 8 | December 9, 2023 20:00 | December 9, 2023 22:45 | 2h 45m | 245 | 614 |
| 9 | January 25, 2023 19:30 | January 25, 2023 20:15 | 45m | 243 | 182 |
| 10 | March 15, 2023 06:00 | March 15, 2023 08:15 | 2h 15m | 199 | 448 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 14 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.48 |
| 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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; 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, 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/rusk-county