When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Port Washington, WI?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
No significant county-wide outage reported · updated 8:45 PM CDT.
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Elsewhere in Wisconsin: 1,041 customers reported out — statewide status.
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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 Port Washington, Wisconsin — customers reported out, restoration progress, active weather alerts, and an independent restoration estimate. Port Washington is a city in Ozaukee County; when the serving utility's public feed reports Port Washington directly, this page shows the city's own outage count and restoration time, with the county-wide view as context.

What we track for Port Washington

Port Washington is a city of about 12,750 residents in Ozaukee County.

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

ZIP codes in Port Washington: 53074 Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Port Washington: the closest other places we track are Grafton, about 5 miles to the southwest; Cedarburg, about 8 miles to the southwest; Mequon, about 11 miles to the southwest; West Bend, about 15 miles to the west. Also nearby: Brown Deer (15 mi S), Germantown (16 mi SW), Glendale (18 mi S), Whitefish Bay (19 mi S), Menomonee Falls (20 mi SW), Shorewood (20 mi S), Richfield (21 mi SW), Milwaukee (22 mi S). Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Kaukauna (65 mi); east toward Muskegon, MI (83 mi); south toward Wauwatosa (24 mi); southwest toward Lisbon (24 mi); west toward Hartford (25 mi); northwest toward Greenville (71 mi).

Who serves Port Washington?

We track live outage data from We Energies ↗ in Ozaukee 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 — Ozaukee County, WI (covers Port Washington)
Power here was restored about 5 hours ago — the outage peaked at 296 customers.
Last significant outage: Aug 18, 2026 — peaked at 296 customers, restored in ~20 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 31, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Ozaukee County, WI (covers Port Washington)
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 332 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 1 major event of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~10,592 customers out in January 2024, restored after about 39 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
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 Port Washington, 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 Port Washington 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 Port Washington, WI?

This page is a live power outage status check for the Port Washington 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. To narrow it to your own street, search a Port Washington ZIP code — 53074 — and the map opens on that area. Your utility's own outage map remains the official word for your account.

How do I report a power outage in Port Washington, WI?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities tracked in Ozaukee 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 Port Washington specifically, or the whole county?

Right now, the Ozaukee County county-wide view, which covers Port Washington. No utility outage map we follow has yet listed an outage for Port Washington by name; utilities here have so far reported only county-wide totals, or used area names we cannot match to Port Washington. If that changes during an outage, the city's own count and restoration time appear here automatically. Grafton (5 mi SW) 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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Port Washington, WI — live power outage tracker