Rusk County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rusk County, Wisconsin had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 1.51 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 16 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Mayhardest months

December and May made up 76% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 4,418 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 69.5 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	1,592	3	0
2016	4,419	10	0
2017	21,426	3	2
2018	3,760	6	0
2019	19,010	7	0
2020	5,290	3	0
2021	31,449	5	3
2022	165,882	9	1
2023	8,182	11	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
Dec 15, 2022	69.5	4,418	157,428
Jul 27, 2021	12.5	1,186	14,825
Jan 1, 2019	5.5	4,061	13,375
May 17, 2017	17.5	834	12,134
Dec 16, 2021	37.8	376	11,395

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.