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2017 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 194K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 442nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 17, 2017 21:45 | February 17, 2017 22:00 | 15m | 8,200 | 2,050 |
| 2 | April 11, 2017 06:00 | April 12, 2017 00:45 | 18h 45m | 6,216 | 31K |
| 3 | March 7, 2017 04:30 | March 9, 2017 20:45 | 2d 16h | 5,232 | 50K |
| 4 | March 28, 2017 14:00 | March 28, 2017 14:15 | 15m | 4,757 | 1,189 |
| 5 | June 5, 2017 14:15 | June 5, 2017 15:15 | 1h | 4,325 | 1,324 |
| 6 | June 11, 2017 17:00 | June 14, 2017 02:30 | 2d 9h | 3,234 | 54K |
| 7 | May 17, 2017 19:45 | May 18, 2017 20:00 | 1d | 1,900 | 18K |
| 8 | August 26, 2017 14:30 | August 26, 2017 18:00 | 3h 30m | 1,316 | 1,822 |
| 9 | May 17, 2017 01:15 | May 17, 2017 17:30 | 16h 15m | 1,015 | 8,741 |
| 10 | June 3, 2017 22:30 | June 4, 2017 10:30 | 12h | 924 | 2,854 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 45 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 4.6 hrs | 1.14 | 1.9 hrs | 0.73 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.50 | 1.6 hrs | 0.80 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Taylor Electric Coop - (WI) | 2017 | 4.7 hrs | - | 54 min | - |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/wisconsin/lincoln-county