Village of Waunakee, WI
Village of Waunakee's outage record
Village of Waunakee customers in Wisconsin rarely lose power at all: 0.3 interruptions last year, adding up to just 19 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 92% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single Village of Waunakee outage runs
At an average of 62 minutes 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.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 7,564 customers here, With a record this steady, Village of Waunakee customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How Village of Waunakee's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Village of Waunakee files with federal regulators every year - serving 7,564 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Wisconsin average instead of just this one utility? Wisconsin's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.