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2023 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1926th 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 Washburn 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 21:45 | July 28, 2023 14:45 | 17h | 3,556 | 9,697 |
| 2 | August 12, 2023 11:30 | August 12, 2023 18:45 | 7h 15m | 1,627 | 3,889 |
| 3 | April 5, 2023 20:00 | April 6, 2023 03:00 | 7h | 1,162 | 3,654 |
| 4 | July 15, 2023 10:30 | July 15, 2023 12:30 | 2h | 990 | 1,429 |
| 5 | June 28, 2023 20:45 | June 29, 2023 06:45 | 10h | 698 | 1,352 |
| 6 | September 5, 2023 14:45 | September 5, 2023 19:45 | 5h | 386 | 1,534 |
| 7 | July 19, 2023 23:15 | July 20, 2023 03:30 | 4h 15m | 368 | 905 |
| 8 | October 9, 2023 23:30 | October 10, 2023 03:00 | 3h 30m | 264 | 726 |
| 9 | September 15, 2023 19:00 | September 15, 2023 23:30 | 4h 30m | 247 | 160 |
| 10 | April 30, 2023 20:30 | April 30, 2023 23:00 | 2h 30m | 188 | 376 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 12 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 Washburn 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; 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, 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/washburn-county