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2024 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 62K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2380th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 26, 2024 23:15 | August 28, 2024 05:45 | 1d 6h | 2,854 | 23K |
| 2 | June 25, 2024 05:30 | June 25, 2024 18:15 | 12h 45m | 2,100 | 9,648 |
| 3 | October 25, 2024 20:30 | October 25, 2024 23:45 | 3h 15m | 1,469 | 4,771 |
| 4 | August 1, 2024 19:45 | August 1, 2024 20:00 | 15m | 1,455 | 364 |
| 5 | April 6, 2024 22:15 | April 7, 2024 01:00 | 2h 45m | 1,449 | 2,899 |
| 6 | November 19, 2024 08:30 | November 19, 2024 18:45 | 10h 15m | 889 | 7,304 |
| 7 | April 7, 2024 21:45 | April 8, 2024 06:00 | 8h 15m | 805 | 3,363 |
| 8 | June 4, 2024 19:00 | June 4, 2024 20:15 | 1h 15m | 766 | 958 |
| 9 | May 24, 2024 14:45 | May 24, 2024 18:15 | 3h 30m | 505 | 1,049 |
| 10 | June 5, 2024 10:15 | June 6, 2024 15:30 | 1d 5h | 392 | 2,015 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 16 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 3.1 hrs | 1.06 | 2.0 hrs | 0.81 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.98 | 2.4 hrs | 1.50 |
| Dunn County Electric Coop | 2024 | 1.8 hrs | 0.84 | 84 min | 0.69 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 | 50 min | 0.69 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/wisconsin/barron-county