Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.63 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 37 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

56 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 53% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 28, 2018, reached 9,591 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 55.5 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	27,830	28	0
2016	7,400	6	0
2017	104,680	30	1
2018	322,473	29	2
2019	27,276	29	0
2020	63,149	32	1
2021	153,675	35	1
2022	75,297	33	0
2023	21,986	25	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 28, 2018	55.5	9,591	225,079
Jul 29, 2021	38.2	7,238	111,318
Jun 12, 2017	43.0	6,085	74,445
Apr 14, 2018	35.5	8,963	65,625
Jun 3, 2020	21.0	3,607	27,083

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.