Hartford Electric, WI
Hartford Electric's outage record
Hartford Electric customers in Wisconsin rarely lose power at all: 0.2 interruptions last year, adding up to just 17 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 93% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single Hartford Electric outage runs
At an average of 1.7 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Hartford Electric
Serving 8,011 customers here, With a record this steady, Hartford Electric customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Hartford Electric files with federal regulators every year - serving 8,011 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Wisconsin as a whole, across every utility that filed: Wisconsin's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.