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2015 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 9,290 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.5 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1676th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Richland County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 16, 2015 18:00 | December 16, 2015 20:00 | 2h | 1,143 | 1,896 |
| 2 | July 13, 2015 23:15 | July 14, 2015 13:15 | 14h | 615 | 3,516 |
| 3 | April 7, 2015 13:15 | April 7, 2015 15:15 | 2h | 466 | 153 |
| 4 | April 3, 2015 14:15 | April 3, 2015 15:00 | 45m | 400 | 300 |
| 5 | July 13, 2015 08:45 | July 13, 2015 19:30 | 10h 45m | 281 | 1,427 |
| 6 | June 22, 2015 14:30 | June 23, 2015 01:15 | 10h 45m | 108 | 683 |
| 7 | March 23, 2015 13:00 | March 23, 2015 16:15 | 3h 15m | 85 | 24 |
| 8 | June 30, 2015 14:30 | June 30, 2015 15:15 | 45m | 63 | 32 |
| 9 | May 17, 2015 20:00 | May 17, 2015 21:30 | 1h 30m | 52 | 44 |
| 10 | May 8, 2015 16:15 | May 8, 2015 18:00 | 1h 45m | 51 | 20 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Richland County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Richland Center - (WI) | 2015 | 12 min | 0.30 | - | - |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scenic Rivers Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Vernon Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Richland Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Muscoda - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Viola - (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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,020 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. Richland County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Richland County, WI annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/wisconsin/richland-county