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2016 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 17K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 1302nd 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 Richland 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 04:30 | July 7, 2016 00:00 | 19h 30m | 1,531 | 11K |
| 2 | October 30, 2016 00:45 | October 30, 2016 01:45 | 1h | 392 | 392 |
| 3 | July 21, 2016 22:15 | July 22, 2016 21:45 | 23h 30m | 369 | 1,017 |
| 4 | September 16, 2016 17:45 | September 16, 2016 20:45 | 3h | 312 | 605 |
| 5 | February 25, 2016 22:30 | February 26, 2016 00:30 | 2h | 244 | 182 |
| 6 | February 20, 2016 08:00 | February 20, 2016 09:15 | 1h 15m | 220 | 221 |
| 7 | August 11, 2016 02:15 | August 11, 2016 07:30 | 5h 15m | 212 | 962 |
| 8 | October 25, 2016 14:15 | October 25, 2016 16:15 | 2h | 211 | 169 |
| 9 | November 13, 2016 17:30 | November 13, 2016 19:15 | 1h 45m | 155 | 241 |
| 10 | June 26, 2016 08:30 | June 26, 2016 14:00 | 5h 30m | 133 | 457 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 14 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Richland Center - (WI) | 2016 | 10 min | 0.90 | - | - |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/richland-county