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2021 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 38.7 hours, a total of 612K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 227th 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 Lincoln 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 | July 27, 2021 14:00 | July 31, 2021 15:00 | 4d 1h | 9,752 | 299K |
| 2 | December 16, 2021 04:30 | December 19, 2021 19:00 | 3d 14h | 8,208 | 200K |
| 3 | July 27, 2021 04:30 | July 27, 2021 10:30 | 6h | 7,008 | 29K |
| 4 | June 10, 2021 18:30 | June 12, 2021 03:30 | 1d 9h | 4,753 | 53K |
| 5 | March 11, 2021 07:30 | March 11, 2021 14:45 | 7h 15m | 3,874 | 5,827 |
| 6 | July 6, 2021 20:30 | July 7, 2021 03:15 | 6h 45m | 1,213 | 660 |
| 7 | August 24, 2021 14:30 | August 24, 2021 17:00 | 2h 30m | 819 | 883 |
| 8 | July 7, 2021 19:00 | July 7, 2021 21:00 | 2h | 557 | 1,084 |
| 9 | September 26, 2021 15:30 | September 26, 2021 18:00 | 2h 30m | 539 | 1,348 |
| 10 | November 12, 2021 01:00 | November 12, 2021 03:45 | 2h 45m | 538 | 1,480 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 39 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 | 2021 | 6.7 hrs | 1.60 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2021 | 9.3 hrs | 1.46 | 1.6 hrs | 0.83 |
| 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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2021; 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, 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/lincoln-county