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2021 La Crosse County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in La Crosse County, WI went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 125K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1732nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in La Crosse County, 2021
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 14, 2021 05:30 | August 14, 2021 15:15 | 9h 45m | 6,146 | 19K |
| 2 | December 14, 2021 01:30 | December 14, 2021 08:00 | 6h 30m | 5,870 | 2,586 |
| 3 | August 7, 2021 16:45 | August 9, 2021 11:45 | 1d 19h | 4,511 | 12K |
| 4 | October 7, 2021 15:45 | October 7, 2021 22:00 | 6h 15m | 4,403 | 3,279 |
| 5 | June 24, 2021 19:45 | June 25, 2021 12:15 | 16h 30m | 4,135 | 13K |
| 6 | October 13, 2021 12:15 | October 13, 2021 20:30 | 8h 15m | 2,408 | 3,666 |
| 7 | February 4, 2021 17:15 | February 4, 2021 20:00 | 2h 45m | 2,211 | 2,264 |
| 8 | August 23, 2021 07:30 | August 24, 2021 03:00 | 19h 30m | 2,161 | 5,714 |
| 9 | December 16, 2021 02:30 | December 18, 2021 01:30 | 1d 23h | 1,780 | 25K |
| 10 | March 10, 2021 14:15 | March 10, 2021 17:15 | 3h | 1,343 | 1,784 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 37 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 La Crosse County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 - Minnesota | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.82 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| Northern States Power Co | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | 1.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| Vernon Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | 2021 | 5.7 hrs | 1.31 | 72 min | 0.77 |
| Village of Bangor - (WI) | 2017 | 10 min | 0.09 | - | - |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc - (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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 37,410 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. La Crosse County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), La Crosse County, WI annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/wisconsin/la-crosse-county