Iron County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Iron County, Wisconsin had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.62 times the US outage time per person and 2.93 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 7 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

35 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Novhardest months

July and November made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Nov 27, 2019, reached 2,739 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.2 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	5,226	4	0
2016	19,220	10	1
2017	16,667	8	2
2018	26,284	14	1
2019	64,916	17	2
2020	8,230	7	0
2021	33,439	7	2
2022	23,460	19	0
2023	24,936	18	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
Nov 27, 2019	35.2	2,739	46,388
Jul 27, 2021	21.8	1,136	19,934
Jun 17, 2018	20.5	1,376	17,633
Jul 27, 2023	16.0	1,530	10,477
May 22, 2019	13.8	1,261	9,167

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.