City of New Richmond, WI
City of New Richmond's outage record
City of New Richmond customers in Wisconsin rarely lose power at all: 0.1 interruptions last year, adding up to just 13 minutes without electricity over the whole 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
2.1 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Most City of New Richmond customers keep power almost all year. Serving 5,900 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of New Richmond filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 5,900 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.