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Who serves Waukesha County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include We Energies, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Oconomowoc Utilities also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Waukesha County, WI
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 661 customers, restored in ~10.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 21 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.5 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 — Waukesha County, WI
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
991 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
14 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: ~45,425 customers out in August 2021, restored after about 2.9 days. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
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.
Cities we track in Waukesha County
Communities in Waukesha County include Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, New Berlin, Muskego, Oconomowoc, Pewaukee, Sussex and Lisbon. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Waukesha County, WI?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Waukesha include We Energies and Oconomowoc Utilities — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
