Sauk County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sauk County, Wisconsin had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 39 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

40 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 54% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 29, 2023, reached 9,935 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 40.5 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	22,875	25	0
2016	60,468	38	1
2017	59,870	41	0
2018	45,229	36	1
2019	41,307	36	1
2020	38,875	27	0
2021	48,355	28	2
2022	65,605	34	2
2023	102,632	27	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
Jul 29, 2023	40.5	9,935	93,306
Dec 15, 2022	8.0	5,871	28,447
Dec 15, 2022	22.8	2,386	19,848
Jun 11, 2016	4.5	5,532	18,374
Jul 14, 2021	14.0	4,551	17,689

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.