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2017 Vernon County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Vernon County, WI went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 34K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 2.9 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1437th 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 Vernon 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 19, 2017 23:45 | July 21, 2017 23:15 | 1d 23h | 1,474 | 27K |
| 2 | August 13, 2017 19:15 | August 13, 2017 20:00 | 45m | 1,098 | 690 |
| 3 | February 3, 2017 18:15 | February 3, 2017 19:30 | 1h 15m | 913 | 1,141 |
| 4 | May 24, 2017 02:30 | May 24, 2017 09:15 | 6h 45m | 262 | 1,495 |
| 5 | August 27, 2017 18:15 | August 27, 2017 19:30 | 1h 15m | 172 | 215 |
| 6 | April 18, 2017 05:00 | April 18, 2017 06:15 | 1h 15m | 129 | 161 |
| 7 | June 17, 2017 00:30 | June 17, 2017 10:00 | 9h 30m | 107 | 562 |
| 8 | June 20, 2017 13:00 | June 20, 2017 19:00 | 6h | 95 | 566 |
| 9 | July 23, 2017 21:00 | July 23, 2017 22:45 | 1h 45m | 47 | 82 |
| 10 | April 17, 2017 23:45 | April 18, 2017 01:30 | 1h 45m | 45 | 69 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| Vernon Electric Coop | 2017 | 4.6 hrs | - | 2.1 hrs | - |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scenic Rivers Energy 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 2017; 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, 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/vernon-county