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2019 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 19.1 hours, a total of 302K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 228th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 22, 2019 07:30 | May 24, 2019 00:00 | 1d 16h | 10,080 | 85K |
| 2 | November 27, 2019 16:15 | November 30, 2019 01:00 | 2d 8h | 6,981 | 125K |
| 3 | July 20, 2019 00:30 | July 20, 2019 19:00 | 18h 30m | 5,688 | 18K |
| 4 | February 7, 2019 23:45 | February 8, 2019 08:00 | 8h 15m | 4,989 | 13K |
| 5 | July 1, 2019 10:15 | July 1, 2019 16:45 | 6h 30m | 3,000 | 3,476 |
| 6 | January 30, 2019 06:00 | January 30, 2019 07:45 | 1h 45m | 2,957 | 3,141 |
| 7 | October 9, 2019 18:00 | October 9, 2019 19:00 | 1h | 2,705 | 1,479 |
| 8 | July 28, 2019 20:30 | July 29, 2019 14:00 | 17h 30m | 2,516 | 7,164 |
| 9 | November 27, 2019 08:00 | November 27, 2019 13:00 | 5h | 2,083 | 2,224 |
| 10 | June 10, 2019 21:30 | June 11, 2019 13:00 | 15h 30m | 1,936 | 7,585 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 38 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2019, 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 84% of Wisconsin's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/wisconsin/lincoln-county