Lincoln County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lincoln County, Wisconsin had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.41 times the US outage time per person and 4.36 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 4 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

97 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Dechardest months

July and December made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 27, 2021, reached 9,752 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 97.0 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	81,668	56	1
2016	155,420	39	4
2017	174,314	35	7
2018	33,760	37	2
2019	283,926	43	3
2020	30,664	20	0
2021	599,194	29	4
2022	69,953	30	3
2023	81,342	15	1

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	97.0	9,752	298,901
Dec 16, 2021	59.8	5,955	130,166
Nov 27, 2019	48.2	6,981	124,282
May 22, 2019	26.0	10,080	83,994
Dec 16, 2021	15.2	8,208	68,858

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.