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2023 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,682 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.4 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2888th 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 Richland 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 | November 16, 2023 14:00 | November 16, 2023 21:30 | 7h 30m | 327 | 459 |
| 2 | April 27, 2023 17:15 | April 27, 2023 18:45 | 1h 30m | 281 | 142 |
| 3 | April 17, 2023 05:45 | April 17, 2023 07:45 | 2h | 82 | 164 |
| 4 | July 10, 2023 16:00 | July 10, 2023 18:15 | 2h 15m | 69 | 90 |
| 5 | August 12, 2023 02:45 | August 12, 2023 08:15 | 5h 30m | 65 | 70 |
| 6 | August 21, 2023 10:15 | August 21, 2023 11:30 | 1h 15m | 44 | 12 |
| 7 | May 2, 2023 19:45 | May 2, 2023 20:45 | 1h | 38 | 29 |
| 8 | December 16, 2023 16:15 | December 16, 2023 17:30 | 1h 15m | 33 | 41 |
| 9 | February 11, 2023 14:00 | February 11, 2023 15:15 | 1h 15m | 21 | 26 |
| 10 | February 27, 2023 12:15 | February 27, 2023 13:15 | 1h | 21 | 21 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 2 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Electric Coop | 2018 | 3.8 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| City of Richland Center - (WI) | 2023 | 0 min | 0.36 | 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 n/a of Wisconsin's customers in 2023; 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, 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/richland-county