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2025 Burnett County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Burnett County, WI went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.9 hours). That ranks 37th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2343rd 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 Burnett 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 | August 15, 2025 14:30 | August 15, 2025 16:30 | 2h | 2,212 | 2,147 |
| 2 | November 26, 2025 03:00 | November 26, 2025 23:15 | 20h 15m | 1,599 | 2,964 |
| 3 | December 4, 2025 16:15 | December 4, 2025 17:45 | 1h 30m | 1,409 | 551 |
| 4 | December 26, 2025 04:45 | December 26, 2025 06:45 | 2h | 1,251 | 2,334 |
| 5 | July 23, 2025 16:30 | July 23, 2025 22:45 | 6h 15m | 1,237 | 637 |
| 6 | June 16, 2025 20:00 | June 16, 2025 22:30 | 2h 30m | 629 | 1,542 |
| 7 | March 15, 2025 13:45 | March 15, 2025 15:45 | 2h | 611 | 1,222 |
| 8 | August 9, 2025 05:45 | August 9, 2025 13:00 | 7h 15m | 544 | 631 |
| 9 | January 13, 2025 14:15 | January 13, 2025 14:30 | 15m | 503 | 126 |
| 10 | May 16, 2025 15:15 | May 16, 2025 16:00 | 45m | 419 | 314 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 21 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 Burnett 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Central Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.60 | 84 min | 0.50 |
| 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 |
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 9,409 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. Burnett County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burnett 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/burnett-county