Buffalo County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Buffalo County, Wisconsin had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.24 times the US outage time per person and 0.44 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 50 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

20 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 1,097 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 19.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	9,967	10	0
2016	6,649	9	1
2017	4,182	3	0
2018	11,233	4	1
2019	4,892	4	0
2020	1,569	2	0
2021	17,514	8	1
2022	10,052	11	1
2023	5,292	6	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Dec 16, 2021	19.5	1,097	9,108
Jun 17, 2018	4.8	1,582	6,761
Jul 18, 2015	5.8	953	4,830
Jul 6, 2016	12.8	474	4,146
Jun 18, 2018	11.8	479	3,507

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.