City of Marshfield, WI
City of Marshfield's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Marshfield's Wisconsin customers went without power for only 13 minutes across 0.1 separate outages last year. That is 94% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here typically run short, about 1.5 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Marshfield customers need a generator
Most City of Marshfield customers keep power almost all year. Serving 13,908 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Marshfield's record was measured
City of Marshfield filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 13,908 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Wisconsin as a whole, across every utility that filed: Wisconsin's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.