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2016 Buffalo County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Buffalo County, WI went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 9,103 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 1523rd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Buffalo County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 6, 2016 02:30 | July 7, 2016 18:30 | 1d 16h | 738 | 4,979 |
| 2 | August 11, 2016 12:00 | August 11, 2016 13:45 | 1h 45m | 339 | 508 |
| 3 | June 28, 2016 13:00 | June 28, 2016 14:30 | 1h 30m | 260 | 278 |
| 4 | July 17, 2016 08:00 | July 17, 2016 14:15 | 6h 15m | 260 | 414 |
| 5 | May 6, 2016 16:45 | May 6, 2016 17:45 | 1h | 259 | 259 |
| 6 | February 18, 2016 23:00 | February 19, 2016 00:30 | 1h 30m | 205 | 308 |
| 7 | March 16, 2016 20:45 | March 16, 2016 23:00 | 2h 15m | 205 | 411 |
| 8 | January 10, 2016 10:45 | January 10, 2016 15:15 | 4h 30m | 185 | 338 |
| 9 | July 7, 2016 21:30 | July 8, 2016 00:45 | 3h 15m | 130 | 154 |
| 10 | August 11, 2016 20:00 | August 11, 2016 22:45 | 2h 45m | 99 | 75 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 9 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Buffalo County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 5.5 hrs | 1.71 | 3.2 hrs | 1.47 |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2016 | 2.4 hrs | 0.90 | 75 min | 0.70 |
| Pierce-Pepin Coop Services | 2016 | 6.4 hrs | 1.55 | 90 min | 1.05 |
| Eau Claire Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,936 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. Buffalo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Buffalo County, WI annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/wisconsin/buffalo-county