La Crosse County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

La Crosse County, Wisconsin had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.25 times the US outage time per person and 0.46 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 48 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

31 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 16, 2023, reached 9,327 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	15,576	12	0
2016	34,350	18	1
2017	43,883	19	1
2018	57,452	26	2
2019	50,392	23	1
2020	59,594	16	1
2021	102,173	24	1
2022	150,328	30	2
2023	163,238	32	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
Apr 16, 2023	30.8	9,327	84,335
Jul 23, 2022	19.8	6,196	50,190
Jul 29, 2023	19.5	8,384	46,189
Jul 20, 2017	23.0	3,551	30,336
Jun 15, 2022	3.2	9,303	30,158

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.