Walworth County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Walworth County, Wisconsin had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.67 times the US outage time per person and 1.21 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 21 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 39% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 22, 2023, reached 15,076 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 48.2 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	90,916	36	2
2016	65,894	45	0
2017	216,090	55	3
2018	64,489	47	0
2019	148,977	60	3
2020	190,255	46	4
2021	159,680	58	4
2022	48,674	43	1
2023	577,985	50	5

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
Feb 22, 2023	48.2	15,076	272,109
Jul 29, 2023	48.5	7,129	132,584
Nov 10, 2020	24.8	7,292	81,224
Jan 17, 2017	137.5	700	67,243
Jun 25, 2023	14.5	8,551	66,058

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.