When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Brown Deer, WI?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
970
customers reported out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin · updated 8:45 PM CDT
Official restoration time (We Energies): Aug 19, 9:30 p.m.
County-wide restoration outlook: ~1.7 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 950 customers an hour)
🎯 Likely 0.9–4.2 hr — based on how accurate our past estimates like this have been.
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Showing County-wide data because we don't have Brown Deer-specific numbers right now — your neighborhood may be restored earlier or later.
Open the live outage map Report an outage — official utility site ↗
Utility informationOur restoration forecast
Official ETA, when the utility posts oneIndependent estimated return window when trend data allows — often available first
Utility-reported status & customer countsConfidence range + whether the outage is growing, stable, or restoring

How the forecast works: we analyze how quickly customers are being restored, whether the outage is still growing, current weather, outage size, and similar past outages in this area. Every completed forecast is compared with when power actually returned. As of Aug 19, 7,878 completed outages have been graded this way — median error 2 hours across the most recent 600 of them (about 1.9 days), and we publish the misses. See the full record (how it works). Independent and unofficial: never the utility's commitment.

Track current power outages in Brown Deer, Wisconsin — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Brown Deer is a village in Milwaukee County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Brown Deer directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Brown Deer

Brown Deer is a village of about 12,527 residents in Milwaukee County.

None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Brown Deer by name, so this page reports the Milwaukee County county-wide view, which covers Brown Deer. If a serving utility does name Brown Deer during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.

Around Brown Deer: the closest other places we track are Glendale, about 4 miles to the southeast; Mequon, about 4 miles to the north; Whitefish Bay, about 6 miles to the southeast; Shorewood, about 7 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Milwaukee (8 mi S), Menomonee Falls (8 mi W), Wauwatosa (8 mi S), Germantown (8 mi NW), Cedarburg (9 mi N), Grafton (10 mi N), Brookfield (11 mi SW), West Allis (12 mi S). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Port Washington (15 mi); south toward Greenfield (15 mi); southwest toward Pewaukee (15 mi); west toward Sussex (13 mi); northwest toward West Bend (20 mi).

Who serves Brown Deer?

We track live outage data from We Energies ↗ in Milwaukee County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. See the forecast panel above for how the estimate works — its inputs, its independence from the utility, and how every completed forecast is scored against what actually happened. Outages below 5 customers are too small for a meaningful area-wide estimate — the page says so instead of guessing.

Outage history — Milwaukee County, WI (covers Brown Deer)
Power here was restored about 46 hours ago — the outage peaked at 240 customers.
Last significant outage: Aug 17, 2026 — peaked at 240 customers, restored in ~1.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 17 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Milwaukee County, WI (covers Brown Deer)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 1,660 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 42 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Wisconsin norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~89,708 customers out in March 2023, restored after about 31.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2021.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Common questions

When will my power be back on in Brown Deer, WI?

It depends on the cause and how many crews are working. When's the Power Back? combines the live outage count, the current restoration rate, weather, and local history into an independent estimate for the Brown Deer area — shown even before your utility posts an official restoration time. Check the live power outage status at the top of this page.

How do I check the power outage status in Brown Deer, WI?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Brown Deer area: current customers out, the affected areas on the map, and an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data is available, refreshed about every 15 minutes from utilities' own outage maps and the federal government's county outage data. Your utility's own outage map remains the official word for your account.

How do I report a power outage in Brown Deer, WI?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Milwaukee County include We Energies; confirm your own provider, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Does this page show Brown Deer specifically, or the whole county?

Right now, the Milwaukee County county-wide view, which covers Brown Deer. No utility outage map we follow has yet listed an outage for Brown Deer by name; utilities here have so far reported only county-wide totals, or used area names we cannot match to Brown Deer. If that changes during an outage, the city's own count and restoration time appear here automatically. Glendale (4 mi SE) is the closest place we track separately.

How accurate is the restoration estimate?

Every estimate is later graded against when the tracked outage was substantially restored (~90% of customers back), and the track record is published on our accuracy page. Estimates firm up a few hours into an outage once a steady restoration trend appears; very small outages are marked "too small to estimate" rather than guessed.

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Brown Deer, WI — live power outage tracker