Power Out Map
– 0% of Burnett out 0 customers out in Wisconsin

Power outage history

Burnett County Wisconsin

1.6hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

55th most of 72 in Wisconsin 75% below the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 11, 2017 34% of customers out · 90% back in 6.2 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.6h / yr State average 3.5 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 21hours Dec 15, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 42% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 2.5 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 9,409 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Burnett's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Burnett, hours without power per customer

BurnettUS median countyWisconsin average
0 2 4 6 8 2.2 ’17 0.7 ’18 2.5 ’19 1.2 ’20 0.8 ’21 2.2 ’22 2.1 ’23 1.1 ’24 2.2 ’25 US 6.6 WI 3.5

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Jun 11, 2017 Thunderstorms 3,212 34% 10 h 6.2 h 11k
Dec 15, 2022 Winter storm 833 9% 21 h 23 h 7.8k
Jul 19, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,805 19% 11 h 6.5 h 7.0k
Jul 19, 2023 Thunderstorms 5,068 54% 2.5 h 2.0 h 5.1k
Jul 8, 2020 No storm report 5,604 60% 48 min 12 h 4.2k
Aug 28, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,066 11% 6.8 h 4.8 h 3.1k
Sep 2, 2019 No storm report 1,362 14% 2.2 h 1.0 h 3.0k
Dec 25, 2025 No storm report 1,251 13% 2.0 h 8.8 h 2.3k
Dec 5, 2017 No storm report 1,301 14% 2.8 h 6.5 h 2.3k
Aug 15, 2025 No storm report 2,212 24% 2.8 h 2.2 h 2.2k
Jul 31, 2023 No storm report 2,132 23% 3.2 h 30 min 2.1k
Mar 3, 2019 No storm report 449 5% 5.2 h – 2.0k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +2h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Burnett from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 58%
  • Thunderstorms 25%
  • Winter storm 15%
  • Flooding 1.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Burnett

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Wisconsin territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Polk-Burnett Electric Coop Cooperative 104 44 1.47 16.0 21k
Barron Electric Coop Cooperative 307 126 2.18 16.0 19k
Northwestern Wisconsin Elec Co Investor Owned – – – 14.6 13k
East Central Energy Cooperative – – – 17.2 5.2k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Wisconsin

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Wisconsin counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 9,409 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →