Waushara County, Wisconsin Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Waushara County, Wisconsin had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.99 times the US outage time per person and 1.80 times the Wisconsin rate. It ranks 14 of 70 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

72 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 14, 2017, reached 9,809 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 71.8 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	9,138	6	0
2016	462	2	0
2017	173,519	23	4
2018	29,050	18	1
2019	99,493	30	3
2020	16,210	24	0
2021	56,008	17	2
2022	155,368	19	1
2023	9,832	10	0

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 14, 2017	71.8	9,809	138,432
Jun 15, 2022	49.5	8,681	133,600
Jul 29, 2021	15.8	5,747	43,557
Jul 20, 2019	19.5	5,801	33,402
Apr 14, 2018	12.2	1,891	15,477

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.