When will the power be back in Washburn County, WI?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Washburn County, WI right now.

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Elsewhere in Wisconsin: 49 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 9:02 AM CDT.

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Who serves Washburn County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Barron Electric Cooperative, East Central Energy, Xcel Energy and Polk-Burnett Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Dahlberg Light & Power Co, North Central Power Co and City of Spooner 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 — Washburn County, WI

⚡ Power here was restored about 20 hours ago — the outage peaked at 634 customers.

Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 634 customers, restored in ~1 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 8 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.9 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Washburn County, WI

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 94 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: ~3,556 customers out in July 2023, restored after about 6.3 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 Washburn County include Spooner, Shell Lake, Minong, Birchwood, Barronett, Bashaw, Bass Lake and Beaver Brook. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Washburn County, WI?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Washburn include Barron Electric Cooperative, East Central Energy, Xcel Energy and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Nearby counties & areas

Burnett County · Sawyer County · Barron County · Douglas County · Rusk County · Polk County · Bayfield County · Ashland County

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