Power outages in Wisconsin, by utility
Across 25 Wisconsin utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 0.9 hours in 2025 — that is 3.2× better than the national median. Wisconsin ranks #40 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 0.9 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 10.5 hrs
- Wisconsin Public Service Corp
- Best utility
- 0.1 hrs
- Waupun Utilities
- Utilities reporting
- 25
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Wisconsin utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wisconsin Public Service CorpInvestor Owned | 10.5 hrs630 min | 1.4 | 3.5× worse |
| 2 | Florence Utility CommMunicipal | 8.4 hrs506 min | 2.5 | 2.8× worse |
| 3 | Northern States Power CoInvestor Owned | 5.1 hrs309 min | 1.1 | 1.7× worse |
| 4 | Barron Electric CoopCooperative | 5.1 hrs307 min | 2.2 | 1.7× worse |
| 5 | Wisconsin Electric Power CoInvestor Owned | 3.1 hrs185 min | 0.9 | 1.0× worse |
| 6 | Riverland Energy CooperativeCooperative | 2.8 hrs170 min | 1.5 | 1.0× better |
| 7 | Dunn County Electric CoopCooperative | 2.1 hrs128 min | 0.8 | 1.4× better |
| 8 | Oakdale Electric CoopCooperative | 2 hrs118 min | 1.1 | 1.5× better |
| 9 | Adams-Columbia Electric CoopCooperative | 1.8 hrs108 min | 0.9 | 1.6× better |
| 10 | Polk-Burnett Electric CoopCooperative | 1.7 hrs104 min | 1.5 | 1.7× better |
| 11 | City of Kaukauna (WI)Municipal | 1.2 hrs71 min | 1.2 | 2.5× better |
| 12 | Two Rivers Water & LightMunicipal | 1.1 hrs67 min | 0.5 | 2.7× better |
| 13 | Rock Energy CooperativeCooperative | 0.9 hrs56 min | 0.5 | 3.2× better |
| 14 | Madison Gas & Electric CoInvestor Owned | 0.8 hrs49 min | 0.4 | 3.6× better |
| 15 | City of River FallsMunicipal | 0.6 hrs38 min | 0.4 | 4.7× better |
| 16 | Manitowoc Public UtilitiesMunicipal | 0.6 hrs35 min | 0.5 | 5.0× better |
| 17 | City of Stoughton - (WI)Municipal | 0.6 hrs34 min | 0.3 | 5.3× better |
| 18 | Superior Water and Light CoInvestor Owned | 0.4 hrs25 min | 0.3 | 7.0× better |
| 19 | Village of Waunakee - (WI)Municipal | 0.3 hrs19 min | 0.3 | 9.2× better |
| 20 | City of New RichmondMunicipal | 0.2 hrs13 min | 0.1 | 13.8× better |
| 21 | City of Marshfield - (WI)Municipal | 0.2 hrs13 min | 0.1 | 13.8× better |
| 22 | City of Sturgeon Bay - (WI)Municipal | 0.2 hrs12 min | 0.3 | 15.1× better |
| 23 | City of Plymouth - (WI)Municipal | 0.2 hrs11 min | 0.1 | 16.3× better |
| 24 | Sun Prairie UtilitiesMunicipal | 0.2 hrs11 min | 0.1 | 16.9× better |
| 25 | Waupun UtilitiesMunicipal | 0.1 hrs4 min | 0.1 | 43.3× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.