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2018 La Crosse County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in La Crosse County, WI went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1828th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in La Crosse County, 2018
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 4, 2018 20:45 | July 5, 2018 05:00 | 8h 15m | 2,991 | 6,866 |
| 2 | December 23, 2018 23:15 | December 24, 2018 01:00 | 1h 45m | 2,322 | 4,062 |
| 3 | January 11, 2018 08:30 | January 11, 2018 14:45 | 6h 15m | 2,182 | 1,725 |
| 4 | June 30, 2018 18:30 | July 1, 2018 20:00 | 1d 1h | 2,037 | 12K |
| 5 | August 28, 2018 01:15 | August 29, 2018 02:45 | 1d 1h | 1,610 | 10K |
| 6 | August 16, 2018 23:00 | August 17, 2018 04:00 | 5h | 1,429 | 474 |
| 7 | June 18, 2018 01:30 | June 18, 2018 18:30 | 17h | 1,404 | 4,389 |
| 8 | May 12, 2018 18:45 | May 13, 2018 01:00 | 6h 15m | 1,152 | 1,565 |
| 9 | March 31, 2018 15:00 | April 2, 2018 01:00 | 1d 10h | 975 | 5,401 |
| 10 | December 2, 2018 12:00 | December 2, 2018 20:30 | 8h 30m | 781 | 2,669 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 33 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 La Crosse County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 0.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 |
| Vernon Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2018 | 1.6 hrs | 0.74 | 1.6 hrs | 0.74 |
| Village of Bangor - (WI) | 2017 | 10 min | 0.09 | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 37,410 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. La Crosse County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), La Crosse County, WI annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/wisconsin/la-crosse-county