Waupaca County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.07 times the US outage time per person and 1.93 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 12 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

94 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 80% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 20, 2019, reached 13,582 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 64.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	43,308	27	0
2016	38,272	24	1
2017	209,058	24	2
2018	39,559	33	0
2019	496,246	21	3
2020	31,896	35	0
2021	76,634	27	2
2022	257,424	22	2
2023	11,612	18	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	64.2	13,582	408,425
Jun 15, 2022	93.8	6,570	219,902
Jun 14, 2017	37.2	12,057	179,935
Jul 23, 2019	50.2	2,191	53,190
Dec 16, 2021	12.5	3,266	28,033

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.