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2025 Washburn County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Washburn County, WI went without power for an average of 8.5 hours, a total of 72K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 947th 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 Washburn 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 19:45 | May 16, 2025 21:15 | 1d 1h | 1,846 | 7,476 |
| 2 | November 26, 2025 03:45 | November 27, 2025 18:30 | 1d 14h | 1,653 | 18K |
| 3 | July 15, 2025 23:15 | July 16, 2025 19:45 | 20h 30m | 1,581 | 5,396 |
| 4 | August 9, 2025 10:00 | August 10, 2025 01:45 | 15h 45m | 1,271 | 8,359 |
| 5 | April 28, 2025 23:45 | April 29, 2025 21:15 | 21h 30m | 1,217 | 4,978 |
| 6 | July 4, 2025 09:00 | July 5, 2025 00:00 | 15h | 1,197 | 2,288 |
| 7 | August 16, 2025 13:30 | August 16, 2025 18:30 | 5h | 1,020 | 1,855 |
| 8 | June 24, 2025 13:15 | June 24, 2025 13:30 | 15m | 636 | 159 |
| 9 | December 19, 2025 02:30 | December 19, 2025 03:45 | 1h 15m | 608 | 285 |
| 10 | February 28, 2025 20:45 | February 28, 2025 22:45 | 2h | 577 | 1,031 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 46 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 Washburn 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 |
| 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 |
| North Central Power Co Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dahlberg Light & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Spooner - (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 ÷ 8,409 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. Washburn County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washburn 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/washburn-county