Power outage history
La Crosse County Wisconsin
3.2hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
31st most of 72 in Wisconsin 51% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of La Crosse's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.0 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
La Crosse, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2023 | Winter storm | 9,327 | 25% | 31 h | 6.2 h | 84k |
| Oct 19, 2024 | No storm report | 11,467 | 31% | 5.5 h | 4.8 h | 53k |
| Jul 23, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 6,196 | 17% | 19 h | 16 h | 50k |
| Jul 28, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 8,384 | 22% | 14 h | 5.8 h | 45k |
| Jul 13, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,051 | 19% | 21 h | 6.2 h | 41k |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Flooding | 9,303 | 25% | 3.2 h | 48 min | 30k |
| Jul 19, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 3,551 | 9% | 20 h | 19 h | 30k |
| May 21, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 5,522 | 15% | 8.8 h | 6.5 h | 28k |
| Jun 2, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 9,904 | 26% | 17 h | 9.5 h | 26k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 1,780 | 5% | 23 h | – | 24k |
| Aug 14, 2021 | No storm report | 6,146 | 16% | 3.2 h | 30 min | 19k |
| Jul 18, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,258 | 9% | 11 h | 7.8 h | 18k |
| May 19, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,850 | 10% | 9.5 h | 7.2 h | 17k |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 4,429 | 12% | 7.0 h | 2.5 h | 16k |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 2,688 | 7% | 8.0 h | 4.0 h | 16k |
| Jun 24, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,135 | 11% | 6.0 h | 5.5 h | 13k |
| Jun 30, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,037 | 5% | 12 h | 9.5 h | 11k |
| Sep 6, 2020 | No storm report | 2,414 | 6% | 5.5 h | 5.0 h | 9.9k |
| Aug 7, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 4,511 | 12% | 2.8 h | 2.0 h | 9.6k |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 5,049 | 14% | 2.2 h | 48 min | 8.9k |
| Dec 13, 2022 | No storm report | 5,011 | 13% | 2.2 h | 1.0 h | 8.8k |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 3,630 | 10% | 5.5 h | 4.5 h | 8.5k |
| Aug 28, 2018 | Flooding | 1,610 | 4% | 9.0 h | – | 8.3k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | No storm report | 4,869 | 13% | 1.8 h | 48 min | 7.5k |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,364 | 12% | 3.8 h | 3.2 h | 7.2k |
| Apr 23, 2016 | No storm report | 3,522 | 9% | 2.2 h | 3.0 h | 7.0k |
| Jul 11, 2015 | No storm report | 2,343 | 6% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 7.0k |
| Jul 4, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 2,991 | 8% | 3.0 h | 1.2 h | 6.5k |
| Apr 27, 2019 | Flooding | 5,571 | 15% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 6.0k |
| Aug 23, 2021 | No storm report | 2,161 | 6% | 3.0 h | 2.8 h | 5.5k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for La Crosse from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 46%
- No storm on record 33%
- Winter storm 13%
- Flooding 7.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving La Crosse
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Wisconsin territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co | Investor Owned | 309 | 110 | 1.15 | 15.6 | 223k |
| Vernon Electric Coop | WI | 188 | 125 | – | 14.5 | 123k |
| Jackson Electric Coop, Inc | WI | – | – | – | 14.1 | 89k |
| Riverland Energy Cooperative | Cooperative | 170 | 134 | 1.53 | 16.2 | 19k |
| Village of Bangor | WI | – | – | – | 12.7 | 12k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- La Crosse (this county) 3.2 h
- Vernon 1.8 h
- Trempealeau 1.7 h
- Houston, MN 1.6 h
- Winona, MN 1.5 h
- Monroe 1.5 h
- Jackson 0.6 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 37,410 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →