Forest County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Forest County, Wisconsin had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.67 times the US outage time per person and 6.63 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 3 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

52 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Marhardest months

July and March made up 38% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 27, 2021, reached 2,924 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 51.8 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	30,183	32	1
2016	50,396	22	2
2017	88,221	18	5
2018	30,469	24	2
2019	154,923	52	3
2020	37,551	25	1
2021	163,161	19	3
2022	130,586	29	3
2023	81,752	23	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
Jul 27, 2021	51.8	2,924	70,392
Mar 23, 2022	46.5	3,610	57,430
Dec 16, 2021	51.8	2,310	54,867
Nov 27, 2019	35.2	7,039	48,076
Jun 11, 2017	51.2	2,141	45,945

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.