Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Manitowoc County, Wisconsin had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.17 times the US outage time per person and 0.31 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 61 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

36 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 11, 2016, reached 4,376 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 24.0 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	31,278	28	0
2016	50,062	18	1
2017	36,462	21	1
2018	12,667	13	0
2019	67,294	35	0
2020	9,123	14	0
2021	23,712	12	1
2022	37,481	26	1
2023	42,510	13	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
Jun 11, 2016	24.0	4,376	36,524
Jul 7, 2023	36.2	963	27,732
Jul 22, 2019	6.0	4,293	21,594
Feb 12, 2017	19.2	822	15,658
Jul 21, 2019	2.8	4,642	12,020

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.