Oneida County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Oneida County, Wisconsin had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.32 times the US outage time per person and 7.81 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 2 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

77 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 10, 2016, reached 16,782 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	186,291	129	6
2016	745,085	65	7
2017	622,730	62	5
2018	54,988	42	1
2019	594,006	65	6
2020	77,534	46	1
2021	709,120	34	4
2022	456,598	43	2
2023	182,434	36	3

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
Jun 10, 2016	55.5	16,782	500,064
Mar 23, 2022	77.2	13,565	377,470
Nov 27, 2019	55.2	13,932	314,820
Jun 11, 2017	49.5	11,774	257,487
Dec 16, 2021	64.2	8,980	216,936

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.