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2020 Vernon County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Vernon County, WI went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 1.8 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1905th 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 Vernon 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 00:00 | June 3, 2020 22:15 | 22h 15m | 2,056 | 8,214 |
| 2 | May 2, 2020 17:45 | May 3, 2020 08:30 | 14h 45m | 1,073 | 15K |
| 3 | May 27, 2020 23:00 | May 28, 2020 08:45 | 9h 45m | 804 | 3,010 |
| 4 | November 6, 2020 17:15 | November 6, 2020 21:00 | 3h 45m | 794 | 2,013 |
| 5 | December 3, 2020 18:00 | December 3, 2020 18:30 | 30m | 716 | 358 |
| 6 | June 9, 2020 20:30 | June 9, 2020 23:30 | 3h | 561 | 288 |
| 7 | November 2, 2020 15:15 | November 2, 2020 20:30 | 5h 15m | 252 | 131 |
| 8 | November 1, 2020 06:00 | November 1, 2020 10:15 | 4h 15m | 251 | 1,067 |
| 9 | June 10, 2020 03:45 | June 10, 2020 10:45 | 7h | 199 | 1,389 |
| 10 | September 12, 2020 16:00 | September 12, 2020 19:00 | 3h | 198 | 594 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 14 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/vernon-county