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2024 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 7.8 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 1149th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lincoln County, 2024
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 22, 2024 23:00 | July 23, 2024 08:45 | 9h 45m | 4,914 | 11K |
| 2 | September 17, 2024 17:30 | September 17, 2024 23:30 | 6h | 3,481 | 5,659 |
| 3 | June 5, 2024 22:15 | June 7, 2024 00:45 | 1d 2h | 3,041 | 22K |
| 4 | June 17, 2024 14:15 | June 18, 2024 06:15 | 16h | 2,394 | 14K |
| 5 | May 27, 2024 06:30 | May 27, 2024 10:45 | 4h 15m | 1,719 | 6,845 |
| 6 | January 2, 2024 13:30 | January 2, 2024 17:15 | 3h 45m | 1,174 | 2,520 |
| 7 | June 14, 2024 01:00 | June 14, 2024 02:00 | 1h | 1,167 | 907 |
| 8 | May 22, 2024 14:30 | May 23, 2024 23:00 | 1d 8h | 1,160 | 19K |
| 9 | August 27, 2024 03:45 | August 27, 2024 23:30 | 19h 45m | 1,110 | 4,436 |
| 10 | May 31, 2024 01:00 | May 31, 2024 11:00 | 10h | 848 | 2,439 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 32 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 3.1 hrs | 1.06 | 2.0 hrs | 0.81 |
| Wisconsin Public Service Corp | 2024 | 7.8 hrs | 1.22 | 1.6 hrs | 0.77 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/wisconsin/lincoln-county