Monroe County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.19 times the US outage time per person and 0.35 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 58 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

18 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Dechardest months

October and December made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 24, 2015, reached 6,021 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 5.5 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	54,018	16	1
2016	4,916	3	0
2017	7,276	8	0
2018	5,293	5	0
2019	19,508	14	0
2020	20,190	6	1
2021	20,811	13	2
2022	31,472	15	1
2023	32,545	12	2

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
Oct 24, 2015	5.5	6,021	32,670
Apr 17, 2023	17.5	2,049	17,352
Dec 15, 2022	13.8	2,062	11,353
Jun 3, 2020	12.0	1,548	10,588
Dec 16, 2021	14.2	2,667	9,251

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.