Sheboygan County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sheboygan County, Wisconsin had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.63 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 37 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

69 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2022, reached 11,918 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 69.0 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	48,975	31	1
2016	20,278	25	0
2017	15,775	13	0
2018	219,212	40	2
2019	48,278	30	0
2020	83,815	26	1
2021	62,248	42	1
2022	296,753	33	3
2023	107,384	45	2

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 16, 2022	69.0	11,918	232,987
Aug 28, 2018	36.2	9,909	153,900
Jun 3, 2020	25.2	7,101	45,717
Jun 25, 2023	40.8	3,457	33,492
Dec 16, 2021	17.8	1,521	17,577

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.