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2018 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 48K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 1490th 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 Lincoln 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 | September 21, 2018 03:15 | September 22, 2018 04:45 | 1d 1h | 2,186 | 11K |
| 2 | May 21, 2018 15:15 | May 21, 2018 15:45 | 30m | 1,973 | 987 |
| 3 | October 4, 2018 01:45 | October 4, 2018 14:00 | 12h 15m | 1,503 | 4,129 |
| 4 | October 20, 2018 14:00 | October 20, 2018 22:30 | 8h 30m | 1,388 | 2,416 |
| 5 | November 4, 2018 14:15 | November 4, 2018 21:15 | 7h | 1,379 | 1,774 |
| 6 | October 17, 2018 22:30 | October 18, 2018 00:30 | 2h | 705 | 530 |
| 7 | May 18, 2018 05:30 | May 18, 2018 08:45 | 3h 15m | 692 | 1,903 |
| 8 | June 17, 2018 12:45 | June 19, 2018 03:00 | 1d 14h | 652 | 5,162 |
| 9 | February 4, 2018 10:15 | February 4, 2018 12:45 | 2h 30m | 640 | 1,426 |
| 10 | September 26, 2018 19:30 | September 26, 2018 21:15 | 1h 45m | 640 | 588 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 37 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 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 | 2018 | 2.9 hrs | 0.94 | 1.8 hrs | 0.69 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2018 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 1.8 hrs | 0.94 |
| Price Electric Coop Inc | 2013 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 | 4.5 hrs | 4.50 |
| Taylor Electric Coop - (WI) | 2018 | 80 min | - | 46 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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; 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, 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/lincoln-county