Marinette County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Marinette County, Wisconsin had 25 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.32 times the US outage time per person and 4.19 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 5 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

79 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 11, 2017, reached 16,826 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 79.0 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	128,248	60	2
2016	59,663	56	1
2017	576,853	59	6
2018	56,754	36	1
2019	250,077	46	3
2020	70,852	46	1
2021	313,080	32	7
2022	635,719	42	2
2023	69,094	33	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
Jun 11, 2017	79.0	16,826	413,335
Jun 15, 2022	70.2	7,972	311,407
Mar 23, 2022	78.0	9,380	285,118
Dec 1, 2019	35.5	7,876	84,528
Dec 16, 2021	46.8	3,967	80,767

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.