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2020 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1992nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 26, 2020 03:15 | July 26, 2020 06:00 | 2h 45m | 3,029 | 4,545 |
| 2 | August 8, 2020 11:00 | August 8, 2020 19:00 | 8h | 1,640 | 4,130 |
| 3 | November 1, 2020 02:30 | November 1, 2020 14:30 | 12h | 1,208 | 7,372 |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 13:45 | April 13, 2020 18:30 | 4h 45m | 1,147 | 1,724 |
| 5 | July 26, 2020 08:45 | July 26, 2020 18:15 | 9h 30m | 681 | 962 |
| 6 | July 19, 2020 05:00 | July 19, 2020 21:00 | 16h | 638 | 813 |
| 7 | April 29, 2020 23:00 | April 30, 2020 00:00 | 1h | 584 | 439 |
| 8 | October 14, 2020 07:30 | October 14, 2020 13:15 | 5h 45m | 582 | 3,341 |
| 9 | October 22, 2020 00:30 | October 22, 2020 04:30 | 4h | 581 | 2,324 |
| 10 | August 31, 2020 14:15 | August 31, 2020 17:00 | 2h 45m | 520 | 1,142 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 30 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 3.9 hrs | 1.63 | 2.8 hrs | 1.52 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.94 | 1.7 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/wisconsin/lincoln-county