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2025 Columbia County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Columbia County, WI went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.9 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 2659th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with WI, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Wisconsin customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 16, 2025 16:00 | August 18, 2025 20:30 | 2d 4h | 5,229 | 40K |
| 2 | June 23, 2025 22:45 | June 25, 2025 04:15 | 1d 5h | 1,571 | 7,542 |
| 3 | June 18, 2025 11:45 | June 18, 2025 15:45 | 4h | 1,373 | 1,718 |
| 4 | September 13, 2025 08:30 | September 13, 2025 14:45 | 6h 15m | 1,122 | 1,636 |
| 5 | November 19, 2025 16:30 | November 19, 2025 21:00 | 4h 30m | 889 | 321 |
| 6 | September 6, 2025 23:00 | September 7, 2025 02:45 | 3h 45m | 872 | 1,341 |
| 7 | July 9, 2025 13:00 | July 9, 2025 13:30 | 30m | 867 | 217 |
| 8 | November 30, 2025 20:30 | November 30, 2025 23:30 | 3h | 804 | 1,044 |
| 9 | February 21, 2025 22:30 | February 21, 2025 23:00 | 30m | 787 | 393 |
| 10 | February 26, 2025 13:15 | February 26, 2025 14:00 | 45m | 569 | 285 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 38 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Electric Power Co | 2024 | 4.9 hrs | 1.04 | 1.8 hrs | 0.74 |
| Adams-Columbia Electric Coop | 2024 | 2.3 hrs | 1.15 | 2.3 hrs | 1.15 |
| Alliant Energy (Interstate Power & Light) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wisconsin Power & Light Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wisconsin Dells Electric Util | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Columbus - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lodi - (WI) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Pardeeville - (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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 53,762 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, WI annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/wisconsin/columbia-county