Dunn County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dunn County, Wisconsin had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.18 times the US outage time per person and 0.33 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 60 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

21 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 3, 2022, reached 3,137 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 10.5 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	7,464	16	0
2016	28,596	11	1
2017	10,906	8	0
2018	17,728	13	1
2019	15,291	10	1
2020	28,483	21	0
2021	10,246	11	0
2022	47,472	17	2
2023	18,674	19	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
Aug 3, 2022	10.5	3,137	19,448
Dec 15, 2022	21.2	5,164	12,848
Jun 11, 2016	10.5	1,202	10,758
Jun 30, 2019	10.8	1,618	10,198
Apr 20, 2020	5.8	2,891	9,230

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.