Chippewa County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chippewa County, Wisconsin had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.49 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 46 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

46 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aughardest months

December and August made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 16, 2021, reached 4,789 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 46.0 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	33,301	22	2
2016	8,486	4	0
2017	15,400	10	0
2018	58,403	15	1
2019	32,752	15	1
2020	17,605	9	1
2021	101,907	6	1
2022	111,888	19	1
2023	22,807	12	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 16, 2021	46.0	4,789	97,463
Dec 15, 2022	40.8	4,277	92,409
Aug 28, 2018	12.8	4,125	26,486
Jul 19, 2019	21.8	1,988	17,874
Jul 13, 2015	9.0	1,925	8,868

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.