Grant County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Grant County, Wisconsin had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.24 times the US outage time per person and 0.43 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 50 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

16 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 22, 2015, reached 7,417 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 16.5 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	107,627	26	1
2016	31,626	13	0
2017	44,975	24	1
2018	7,393	11	0
2019	21,650	17	0
2020	30,811	11	1
2021	9,616	7	0
2022	9,555	10	0
2023	12,906	11	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
Jun 22, 2015	16.5	7,417	92,676
Aug 10, 2020	3.8	4,608	13,896
Jun 29, 2017	38.5	392	12,868
Apr 7, 2016	6.0	1,682	10,092
Aug 10, 2020	8.5	3,244	9,490

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.