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Who serves Barron County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Barron Electric Cooperative, Xcel Energy, Jump River Electric Cooperative, Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative and 2 more, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Rice Lake Utilities, North Central Power Co, City of Barron and 1 other also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Barron County, WI
Last significant outage: Aug 12, 2026 — peaked at 255 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 16.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 5, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Barron County, WI
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
140 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Wisconsin norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~6,923 customers out in May 2025, restored after about 8.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Barron County include Rice Lake, Cumberland, Chetek, Cameron, Turtle Lake, Almena, Prairie Farm and Dallas. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
