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2017 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1465th 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 Richland 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 | July 20, 2017 00:45 | July 22, 2017 20:30 | 2d 19h | 997 | 13K |
| 2 | April 1, 2017 08:30 | April 1, 2017 09:45 | 1h 15m | 536 | 455 |
| 3 | May 12, 2017 17:30 | May 13, 2017 01:00 | 7h 30m | 469 | 1,478 |
| 4 | March 7, 2017 04:30 | March 7, 2017 11:15 | 6h 45m | 414 | 1,756 |
| 5 | March 8, 2017 20:45 | March 8, 2017 22:30 | 1h 45m | 391 | 684 |
| 6 | October 7, 2017 05:45 | October 7, 2017 08:00 | 2h 15m | 384 | 392 |
| 7 | June 28, 2017 12:45 | June 28, 2017 13:15 | 30m | 275 | 138 |
| 8 | September 16, 2017 07:45 | September 16, 2017 09:45 | 2h | 244 | 422 |
| 9 | September 26, 2017 17:45 | September 26, 2017 19:00 | 1h 15m | 132 | 165 |
| 10 | July 16, 2017 05:45 | July 16, 2017 06:15 | 30m | 95 | 48 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 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 Richland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.6 hrs | - | 2.1 hrs | - |
| City of Richland Center - (WI) | 2017 | 42 min | 1.04 | - | - |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scenic Rivers Energy 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 2017; 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, 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/richland-county