Outagamie County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Outagamie County, Wisconsin had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.96 times the US outage time per person and 1.74 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 15 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

102 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 87% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 20, 2019, reached 42,869 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 69.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	64,730	24	1
2016	99,922	35	1
2017	152,360	42	2
2018	74,299	56	0
2019	2,015,284	52	2
2020	70,232	28	0
2021	146,574	39	3
2022	1,443,726	40	2
2023	63,144	27	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
Jul 20, 2019	69.8	42,869	1,741,801
Jun 15, 2022	101.8	22,173	1,275,141
Jul 23, 2019	47.0	8,379	181,742
Jun 14, 2017	29.2	8,466	85,402
Jun 5, 2016	14.5	10,799	67,695

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.