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2020 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 6,697 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2728th 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 Richland 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 | June 3, 2020 01:00 | June 3, 2020 11:00 | 10h | 556 | 2,972 |
| 2 | April 30, 2020 23:00 | April 30, 2020 23:45 | 45m | 321 | 240 |
| 3 | May 1, 2020 01:15 | May 1, 2020 02:00 | 45m | 319 | 239 |
| 4 | October 14, 2020 17:15 | October 14, 2020 19:30 | 2h 15m | 283 | 597 |
| 5 | December 30, 2020 01:30 | December 30, 2020 04:15 | 2h 45m | 283 | 778 |
| 6 | October 4, 2020 00:15 | October 4, 2020 03:00 | 2h 45m | 241 | 543 |
| 7 | February 13, 2020 03:00 | February 13, 2020 04:30 | 1h 30m | 146 | 219 |
| 8 | September 24, 2020 19:30 | September 24, 2020 21:15 | 1h 45m | 145 | 254 |
| 9 | July 26, 2020 21:15 | July 27, 2020 00:45 | 3h 30m | 78 | 195 |
| 10 | September 8, 2020 23:15 | September 8, 2020 23:30 | 15m | 41 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| City of Richland Center - (WI) | 2020 | 22 min | 0.24 | - | - |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/richland-county