Marquette County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Marquette County, Wisconsin had 10 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.01 times the US outage time per person and 1.82 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 13 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

48 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 60% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 28, 2018, reached 5,520 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 47.5 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	4,654	7	0
2016	0	0	0
2017	35,244	10	1
2018	142,794	18	2
2019	38,957	27	1
2020	4,334	8	0
2021	33,601	14	2
2022	72,056	10	3
2023	17,877	16	1

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
Aug 28, 2018	47.5	5,520	115,115
Jun 15, 2022	40.8	2,503	58,912
Jun 14, 2017	16.5	3,847	20,447
Dec 16, 2021	6.2	2,055	8,918
May 15, 2021	8.5	1,010	8,527

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.