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2025 Rusk County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Rusk County, WI went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.9 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1955th 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 Rusk 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 | October 9, 2025 14:00 | October 9, 2025 21:00 | 7h | 3,657 | 1,006 |
| 2 | May 15, 2025 21:30 | May 18, 2025 02:00 | 2d 4h | 3,359 | 22K |
| 3 | February 28, 2025 17:15 | February 28, 2025 18:30 | 1h 15m | 1,247 | 724 |
| 4 | March 5, 2025 20:15 | March 5, 2025 23:00 | 2h 45m | 1,241 | 1,015 |
| 5 | October 22, 2025 02:15 | October 22, 2025 03:45 | 1h 30m | 1,187 | 944 |
| 6 | June 21, 2025 11:00 | June 22, 2025 00:00 | 13h | 475 | 1,490 |
| 7 | July 29, 2025 05:30 | July 29, 2025 15:30 | 10h | 294 | 1,475 |
| 8 | December 28, 2025 22:00 | December 29, 2025 13:45 | 15h 45m | 265 | 798 |
| 9 | December 31, 2025 15:00 | December 31, 2025 18:00 | 3h | 150 | 299 |
| 10 | July 4, 2025 10:45 | July 4, 2025 19:00 | 8h 15m | 138 | 920 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 14 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 Rusk 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 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Barron Electric Coop | 2024 | 4.6 hrs | 1.98 | 2.4 hrs | 1.50 |
| Jump River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chippewa Valley Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 10,344 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. Rusk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rusk 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/rusk-county