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2025 Lincoln County, WI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Lincoln County, WI went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 195K customer-hours (Wisconsin average 3.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 72 Wisconsin counties and 631st 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 Lincoln 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 | December 28, 2025 22:30 | December 30, 2025 09:15 | 1d 10h | 3,694 | 23K |
| 2 | March 30, 2025 05:00 | April 3, 2025 11:00 | 4d 6h | 3,258 | 134K |
| 3 | March 5, 2025 09:45 | March 6, 2025 20:00 | 1d 10h | 1,560 | 4,629 |
| 4 | November 26, 2025 12:15 | November 27, 2025 14:00 | 1d 1h | 1,490 | 8,383 |
| 5 | May 15, 2025 19:30 | May 15, 2025 20:15 | 45m | 601 | 451 |
| 6 | November 15, 2025 10:15 | November 15, 2025 11:45 | 1h 30m | 600 | 751 |
| 7 | March 7, 2025 22:00 | March 7, 2025 23:45 | 1h 45m | 596 | 150 |
| 8 | July 19, 2025 10:30 | July 20, 2025 00:30 | 14h | 501 | 2,553 |
| 9 | May 15, 2025 23:30 | May 17, 2025 22:45 | 1d 23h | 484 | 6,687 |
| 10 | March 23, 2025 23:30 | March 24, 2025 10:00 | 10h 30m | 393 | 1,821 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 24 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; 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, 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/lincoln-county