Door County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Door County, Wisconsin had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.24 times the US outage time per person and 2.24 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 10 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

36 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Dechardest months

August and December made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 2, 2015, reached 13,409 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 31.2 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	232,510	35	1
2016	24,361	17	0
2017	116,396	35	0
2018	75,457	31	2
2019	158,994	38	3
2020	12,200	18	0
2021	114,119	17	5
2022	60,141	25	2
2023	35,950	18	2

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
Aug 2, 2015	31.2	13,409	199,130
Dec 1, 2019	34.0	8,767	104,474
Jul 13, 2017	7.8	12,100	82,106
Dec 16, 2021	11.5	4,108	30,342
Jun 18, 2018	8.2	2,968	21,956

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.