Kenosha County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kenosha County, Wisconsin had 27 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.59 times the US outage time per person and 1.07 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 26 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 22, 2023, reached 13,067 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.8 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	128,820	41	3
2016	90,219	44	2
2017	136,706	57	2
2018	116,648	58	1
2019	274,122	71	5
2020	193,591	56	4
2021	423,076	55	3
2022	221,827	46	3
2023	621,060	55	4

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
Feb 22, 2023	46.8	13,067	253,873
Jul 29, 2023	41.8	12,588	169,459
Aug 11, 2021	49.5	10,823	139,728
Mar 10, 2023	30.0	7,048	93,088
Jul 29, 2021	14.5	9,250	68,944

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.