Sawyer County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Sawyer County, Wisconsin had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.61 times the US outage time per person and 2.91 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 8 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

62 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Junhardest months

December and June made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 5,902 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 62.2 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	23,380	15	0
2016	103,944	17	2
2017	79,548	10	1
2018	17,318	12	0
2019	28,002	16	1
2020	39,377	6	2
2021	30,945	16	3
2022	326,776	17	4
2023	16,634	12	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
Dec 15, 2022	62.2	5,902	222,250
Jun 11, 2017	49.8	2,914	75,190
Aug 3, 2022	24.5	3,560	45,272
Jun 26, 2016	16.2	3,348	41,233
Mar 6, 2022	24.5	2,589	32,589

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.