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2022 Vernon County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Vernon County, WI went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 52K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1640th 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 Vernon 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 | July 23, 2022 20:30 | July 25, 2022 02:15 | 1d 5h | 1,845 | 21K |
| 2 | December 22, 2022 06:15 | December 23, 2022 00:15 | 18h | 1,116 | 17K |
| 3 | February 11, 2022 08:30 | February 11, 2022 08:45 | 15m | 1,113 | 278 |
| 4 | August 7, 2022 02:30 | August 7, 2022 18:30 | 16h | 829 | 4,158 |
| 5 | March 31, 2022 05:30 | March 31, 2022 07:30 | 2h | 678 | 1,356 |
| 6 | January 24, 2022 19:30 | January 24, 2022 19:45 | 15m | 386 | 97 |
| 7 | July 13, 2022 03:00 | July 13, 2022 08:45 | 5h 45m | 332 | 1,112 |
| 8 | October 17, 2022 15:15 | October 17, 2022 15:45 | 30m | 298 | 149 |
| 9 | December 29, 2022 17:15 | December 29, 2022 19:30 | 2h 15m | 260 | 262 |
| 10 | December 30, 2022 16:30 | December 30, 2022 19:00 | 2h 30m | 159 | 370 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 18 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | 2022 | 6.7 hrs | 1.68 | 2.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| 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 85% of Wisconsin's customers in 2022; 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, 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/vernon-county