Vilas County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Vilas County, Wisconsin had 42 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.91 times the US outage time per person and 12.51 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 1 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.7major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 45% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 27, 2021, reached 19,123 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 87.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	170,349	100	3
2016	623,361	63	7
2017	543,350	45	7
2018	81,732	53	1
2019	266,498	54	8
2020	121,602	67	3
2021	938,877	41	3
2022	647,919	66	6
2023	250,224	39	4

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
Jul 27, 2021	87.8	19,123	531,433
Dec 16, 2021	83.5	12,910	343,314
Mar 23, 2022	65.0	13,340	343,312
Jun 10, 2016	52.0	12,976	272,875
Jul 21, 2016	56.5	12,501	193,352

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.