Barron County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Barron County, Wisconsin had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.43 times the US outage time per person and 0.78 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 34 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

50 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Dechardest months

July and December made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 19, 2019, reached 4,978 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 22.5 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	17,388	13	1
2016	12,125	9	0
2017	58,323	14	3
2018	8,533	8	0
2019	183,248	15	3
2020	36,912	19	2
2021	19,115	9	0
2022	82,895	20	2
2023	26,230	19	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 19, 2019	22.5	4,978	95,316
Jul 20, 2019	49.5	3,206	70,302
Dec 15, 2022	33.5	2,399	49,668
Jun 11, 2017	8.2	3,329	19,486
Dec 16, 2021	6.8	1,763	10,692

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.