Winnebago County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Winnebago County, Wisconsin had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.31 times the US outage time per person and 0.56 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 40 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

91 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 23, 2022, reached 20,041 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 26.0 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	84,126	41	1
2016	40,639	35	0
2017	81,758	37	1
2018	57,285	31	0
2019	188,402	35	1
2020	102,158	39	1
2021	114,369	33	1
2022	442,247	30	2
2023	65,559	33	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 23, 2022	26.0	20,041	235,801
Jun 15, 2022	91.2	6,168	159,997
Jul 20, 2019	56.2	6,013	130,848
Jul 29, 2021	36.8	4,582	59,593
Jun 14, 2017	22.0	10,230	40,226

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.