Racine County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Racine County, Wisconsin had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.63 times the US outage time per person and 1.15 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 22 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

54 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Febhardest months

July and February made up 46% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 22, 2023, reached 45,310 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.0 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	80,507	26	0
2016	143,816	57	2
2017	443,271	49	4
2018	107,188	59	1
2019	240,956	89	2
2020	371,537	55	6
2021	292,565	68	5
2022	154,020	50	2
2023	937,903	59	8

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	36.0	45,310	555,046
Jul 12, 2017	53.8	12,057	256,397
Aug 10, 2020	29.0	14,758	146,711
Mar 10, 2023	41.2	19,307	129,759
Jul 3, 2019	27.2	7,529	59,778

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.