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2019 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 9,226 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2433rd 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 Richland 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 | August 25, 2019 19:00 | August 25, 2019 22:15 | 3h 15m | 539 | 687 |
| 2 | April 30, 2019 12:30 | April 30, 2019 13:15 | 45m | 410 | 307 |
| 3 | October 21, 2019 17:15 | October 21, 2019 18:00 | 45m | 403 | 302 |
| 4 | March 19, 2019 22:15 | March 20, 2019 03:15 | 5h | 379 | 1,895 |
| 5 | January 30, 2019 11:45 | January 30, 2019 14:45 | 3h | 378 | 851 |
| 6 | July 19, 2019 06:00 | July 19, 2019 14:45 | 8h 45m | 345 | 1,130 |
| 7 | April 10, 2019 01:00 | April 10, 2019 02:30 | 1h 30m | 323 | 350 |
| 8 | March 10, 2019 21:30 | March 11, 2019 00:15 | 2h 45m | 282 | 143 |
| 9 | December 28, 2019 19:45 | December 28, 2019 21:15 | 1h 30m | 233 | 350 |
| 10 | December 28, 2019 22:00 | December 29, 2019 00:15 | 2h 15m | 233 | 524 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 13 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 84% of Wisconsin's customers in 2019; 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, 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/richland-county