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2024 Polk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Polk County, WI went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2253rd 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 Polk 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 | June 5, 2024 18:45 | June 6, 2024 20:15 | 1d 1h | 3,568 | 16K |
| 2 | August 27, 2024 01:15 | August 29, 2024 20:15 | 2d 19h | 2,585 | 17K |
| 3 | June 14, 2024 23:00 | June 18, 2024 05:00 | 3d 6h | 2,216 | 7,955 |
| 4 | June 10, 2024 17:15 | June 10, 2024 20:45 | 3h 30m | 1,787 | 3,572 |
| 5 | July 14, 2024 06:45 | July 14, 2024 15:30 | 8h 45m | 931 | 3,519 |
| 6 | July 15, 2024 21:30 | July 15, 2024 22:45 | 1h 15m | 876 | 551 |
| 7 | June 4, 2024 22:45 | June 5, 2024 05:45 | 7h | 871 | 1,399 |
| 8 | March 13, 2024 11:30 | March 13, 2024 14:30 | 3h | 754 | 1,899 |
| 9 | September 21, 2024 14:15 | September 22, 2024 07:00 | 16h 45m | 704 | 4,468 |
| 10 | June 7, 2024 08:45 | June 7, 2024 09:00 | 15m | 628 | 157 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 36 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Polk 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 |
| Polk-Burnett Electric Coop | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 0.98 | 50 min | 0.69 |
| St Croix Electric Coop | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 | 1.7 hrs | 0.68 |
| 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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 33,361 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk 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/polk-county