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2025 Barron County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Barron County, WI went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 93K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.9 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1997th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Barron County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 15, 2025 21:15 | May 16, 2025 21:15 | 1d | 6,923 | 23K |
| 2 | August 16, 2025 12:15 | August 16, 2025 20:15 | 8h | 2,809 | 3,744 |
| 3 | April 28, 2025 21:45 | April 29, 2025 23:00 | 1d 1h | 1,816 | 9,282 |
| 4 | December 5, 2025 11:15 | December 5, 2025 11:30 | 15m | 1,804 | 451 |
| 5 | June 14, 2025 13:15 | June 15, 2025 10:45 | 21h 30m | 1,141 | 12K |
| 6 | June 14, 2025 01:30 | June 14, 2025 03:15 | 1h 45m | 1,040 | 1,820 |
| 7 | September 7, 2025 12:30 | September 7, 2025 15:15 | 2h 45m | 1,035 | 912 |
| 8 | August 9, 2025 09:45 | August 10, 2025 03:30 | 17h 45m | 951 | 3,799 |
| 9 | June 29, 2025 05:15 | June 29, 2025 11:30 | 6h 15m | 931 | 3,040 |
| 10 | May 20, 2025 16:30 | May 21, 2025 01:00 | 8h 30m | 910 | 2,368 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 38 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 Barron County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/wisconsin/barron-county