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2023 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 5.8 hours, a total of 91K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1319th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2023
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 28, 2023 00:00 | July 29, 2023 06:30 | 1d 6h | 4,282 | 16K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 05:15 | April 2, 2023 23:00 | 1d 17h | 4,076 | 53K |
| 3 | April 26, 2023 11:00 | April 26, 2023 13:15 | 2h 15m | 1,850 | 4,151 |
| 4 | March 29, 2023 21:45 | March 30, 2023 01:30 | 3h 45m | 1,157 | 4,335 |
| 5 | November 7, 2023 00:00 | November 7, 2023 02:15 | 2h 15m | 839 | 1,755 |
| 6 | May 1, 2023 14:15 | May 1, 2023 21:30 | 7h 15m | 559 | 642 |
| 7 | August 25, 2023 22:00 | August 26, 2023 01:30 | 3h 30m | 545 | 831 |
| 8 | November 16, 2023 17:00 | November 17, 2023 00:00 | 7h | 462 | 1,420 |
| 9 | February 21, 2023 15:45 | February 21, 2023 17:45 | 2h | 392 | 462 |
| 10 | September 24, 2023 23:00 | September 25, 2023 07:45 | 8h 45m | 376 | 1,328 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 18 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.26 | 2.1 hrs | 1.09 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2023 | 2.5 hrs | 0.85 | 74 min | 0.67 |
| 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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/wisconsin/lincoln-county