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2018 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 7,079 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.7 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2353rd 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 Richland 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 | March 9, 2018 16:30 | March 9, 2018 19:30 | 3h | 384 | 673 |
| 2 | July 13, 2018 23:15 | July 14, 2018 11:30 | 12h 15m | 383 | 2,094 |
| 3 | October 7, 2018 10:00 | October 7, 2018 14:00 | 4h | 274 | 1,074 |
| 4 | March 4, 2018 13:00 | March 4, 2018 20:00 | 7h | 267 | 481 |
| 5 | May 24, 2018 18:45 | May 24, 2018 19:30 | 45m | 201 | 149 |
| 6 | December 17, 2018 18:00 | December 17, 2018 21:00 | 3h | 198 | 592 |
| 7 | August 28, 2018 21:45 | August 28, 2018 22:30 | 45m | 88 | 66 |
| 8 | March 12, 2018 16:30 | March 12, 2018 20:30 | 4h | 64 | 211 |
| 9 | March 8, 2018 15:15 | March 8, 2018 16:30 | 1h 15m | 49 | 61 |
| 10 | April 12, 2018 14:00 | April 12, 2018 15:45 | 1h 45m | 49 | 86 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| City of Richland Center - (WI) | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 0.48 | - | - |
| 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 83% of Wisconsin's customers in 2018; 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, 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/richland-county