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2019 Vernon County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Vernon County, WI went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 26K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.4 hours). That ranks 46th worst of 71 Wisconsin counties and 2038th 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 Vernon 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 | April 11, 2019 08:00 | April 13, 2019 05:15 | 1d 21h | 2,015 | 12K |
| 2 | April 21, 2019 12:00 | April 21, 2019 14:45 | 2h 45m | 992 | 2,132 |
| 3 | May 5, 2019 00:15 | May 5, 2019 02:00 | 1h 45m | 935 | 1,581 |
| 4 | July 19, 2019 06:00 | July 19, 2019 20:00 | 14h | 815 | 955 |
| 5 | July 20, 2019 18:30 | July 21, 2019 03:30 | 9h | 797 | 1,522 |
| 6 | July 1, 2019 00:30 | July 1, 2019 01:15 | 45m | 661 | 496 |
| 7 | October 12, 2019 21:15 | October 12, 2019 23:30 | 2h 15m | 658 | 1,481 |
| 8 | September 3, 2019 07:30 | September 3, 2019 10:30 | 3h | 615 | 1,729 |
| 9 | May 30, 2019 21:00 | May 30, 2019 23:45 | 2h 45m | 304 | 834 |
| 10 | September 19, 2019 07:00 | September 19, 2019 14:30 | 7h 30m | 169 | 452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 11 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Vernon 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 |
| Vernon Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scenic Rivers Energy Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Richland Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Viola - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Westby | - | - | - | - | - |
| La Farge Municipal Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 12,813 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. Vernon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Vernon 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/vernon-county