Power outages in Portage County, WI
We don't have a live outage feed for the utilities serving Portage County yet. Wisconsin Power & Light Co, Wisconsin Public Service Corp and Adams-Columbia Electric Coop serve this county.
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No live outage data for Portage County yet.
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This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.i
This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.i
From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.Outage map
Outage history in Portage County
2014–2025 recordPortage County averaged 16 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Wisconsin counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 22. Half were over within 2 hours; the longest lasted 32 hours, starting March 30, 2025.
The largest on record began June 12, 2017, with 18,682 customers out at once.
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.i
Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| June 12, 2017 | 18,682 | 3.1 days | 621,060 |
| July 20, 2019 | 17,096 | 5.4 days | 568,570 |
| February 28, 2016 | 7,852 | 4.5 hours | 33,352 |
| June 15, 2022 | 7,813 | 28 hours | 74,497 |
| February 24, 2019 | 6,214 | 26 hours | 60,598 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.
Cities in Portage County
Utilities
- Wisconsin Power & Light Co no live feed
- Wisconsin Public Service Corp no live feed
- Adams-Columbia Electric Coop no live feed
- Wisconsin Rapids W W & L Comm no live feed
- Consolidated Water Power Co no live feed
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