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2022 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 5,169 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 69th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2803rd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Richland County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 30, 2022 23:45 | May 1, 2022 01:45 | 2h | 677 | 614 |
| 2 | July 24, 2022 05:45 | July 24, 2022 09:00 | 3h 15m | 558 | 875 |
| 3 | November 1, 2022 20:30 | November 1, 2022 20:45 | 15m | 546 | 137 |
| 4 | June 15, 2022 21:45 | June 16, 2022 06:30 | 8h 45m | 245 | 679 |
| 5 | June 21, 2022 07:00 | June 21, 2022 08:15 | 1h 15m | 231 | 235 |
| 6 | August 18, 2022 08:30 | August 18, 2022 09:45 | 1h 15m | 145 | 181 |
| 7 | September 9, 2022 08:30 | September 9, 2022 09:30 | 1h | 115 | 115 |
| 8 | December 15, 2022 06:45 | December 16, 2022 04:15 | 21h 30m | 104 | 838 |
| 9 | July 5, 2022 23:30 | July 6, 2022 01:00 | 1h 30m | 85 | 128 |
| 10 | July 6, 2022 06:15 | July 6, 2022 08:00 | 1h 45m | 85 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 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 2022, 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) | 2022 | 24 min | 0.30 | 0 min | 0.00 |
| 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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/wisconsin/richland-county