Polk County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Polk County, Wisconsin had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.79 times the US outage time per person and 1.43 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 17 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

89 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Mayhardest months

July and May made up 75% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 19, 2019, reached 9,152 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 74.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	7,080	12	0
2016	20,217	8	1
2017	78,030	25	2
2018	33,670	30	1
2019	463,404	33	2
2020	58,481	22	1
2021	27,474	27	0
2022	41,182	30	1
2023	66,720	46	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 19, 2019	74.2	9,152	306,645
Jul 23, 2019	88.8	1,892	90,815
Jul 12, 2017	16.2	10,357	42,195
Jul 28, 2019	7.0	6,403	18,565
Oct 8, 2019	6.5	3,448	18,237

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.