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2016 Vernon County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Vernon County, WI went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.9 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 70 Wisconsin counties and 1872nd 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 Vernon 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 23, 2016 17:00 | July 23, 2016 18:30 | 1h 30m | 647 | 486 |
| 2 | July 1, 2016 02:15 | July 1, 2016 02:45 | 30m | 336 | 168 |
| 3 | June 30, 2016 12:15 | July 1, 2016 00:45 | 12h 30m | 335 | 1,298 |
| 4 | July 6, 2016 03:30 | July 6, 2016 19:45 | 16h 15m | 323 | 2,374 |
| 5 | May 16, 2016 23:15 | May 17, 2016 03:30 | 4h 15m | 270 | 273 |
| 6 | July 17, 2016 09:30 | July 17, 2016 12:15 | 2h 45m | 194 | 261 |
| 7 | May 26, 2016 12:00 | May 26, 2016 15:00 | 3h | 178 | 223 |
| 8 | July 24, 2016 09:30 | July 24, 2016 12:00 | 2h 30m | 176 | 440 |
| 9 | March 24, 2016 05:00 | March 24, 2016 08:30 | 3h 30m | 147 | 515 |
| 10 | September 7, 2016 19:45 | September 8, 2016 02:15 | 6h 30m | 128 | 535 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 11 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 Vernon 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 Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scenic Rivers Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Vernon Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Richland Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Viola - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Westby | - | - | - | - | - |
| La Farge Municipal Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,813 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. Vernon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vernon 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/vernon-county