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2016 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 10.8 hours, a total of 171K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 323rd 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 Lincoln 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 | June 26, 2016 01:30 | June 26, 2016 14:30 | 13h | 7,494 | 19K |
| 2 | November 10, 2016 16:00 | November 10, 2016 16:15 | 15m | 4,746 | 1,187 |
| 3 | June 5, 2016 20:45 | June 7, 2016 02:15 | 1d 5h | 3,247 | 20K |
| 4 | December 26, 2016 00:45 | December 27, 2016 06:15 | 1d 5h | 3,172 | 12K |
| 5 | June 10, 2016 21:30 | June 11, 2016 15:15 | 17h 45m | 2,920 | 15K |
| 6 | July 21, 2016 11:15 | July 23, 2016 00:00 | 1d 12h | 2,835 | 43K |
| 7 | April 15, 2016 19:45 | April 15, 2016 23:00 | 3h 15m | 2,608 | 5,216 |
| 8 | April 18, 2016 15:15 | April 18, 2016 16:00 | 45m | 2,594 | 649 |
| 9 | July 12, 2016 07:45 | July 12, 2016 22:00 | 14h 15m | 2,310 | 18K |
| 10 | November 18, 2016 21:15 | November 19, 2016 22:45 | 1d 1h | 1,457 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 35 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Lincoln 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 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 0.77 | 78 min | 0.59 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Taylor Electric Coop - (WI) | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
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 ÷ 15,797 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. Lincoln County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lincoln 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/lincoln-county