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2024 Richland County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Richland County, WI went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 2,827 customer-hours (Wisconsin average 4.6 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2881st 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 Richland 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 | April 2, 2024 21:45 | April 2, 2024 23:45 | 2h | 313 | 626 |
| 2 | October 30, 2024 15:15 | October 30, 2024 15:45 | 30m | 222 | 111 |
| 3 | February 7, 2024 03:00 | February 7, 2024 05:30 | 2h 30m | 221 | 297 |
| 4 | June 25, 2024 05:15 | June 25, 2024 07:45 | 2h 30m | 141 | 290 |
| 5 | October 16, 2024 16:45 | October 16, 2024 17:30 | 45m | 129 | 97 |
| 6 | May 4, 2024 16:00 | May 4, 2024 17:00 | 1h | 117 | 117 |
| 7 | February 6, 2024 15:15 | February 6, 2024 16:00 | 45m | 96 | 26 |
| 8 | October 5, 2024 23:15 | October 5, 2024 23:45 | 30m | 91 | 46 |
| 9 | April 18, 2024 22:15 | April 18, 2024 23:45 | 1h 30m | 68 | 102 |
| 10 | January 11, 2024 17:45 | January 11, 2024 18:15 | 30m | 60 | 30 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2024; 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, 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/richland-county