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Thousands of Wisconsinites without power Wednesday

Spectrum News 1 · last updated

WISCONSIN — After snow fell in Wisconsin overnight and into this morning, 33,773 Wisconsin households were without power as of Wednesday at 1:40 p.m. 

Vilas County accounted for most of the outages, with 8,945 households without power. Another 4,691 Waukesha County households also lost power. 

Iron County accounted for the third most outages, with 3,388 households reportedly without power. Washington County reported 2,445 households had lost power. Langlade, Sawyer, Kenosha and Lincoln Counties all reported more then 1,000 households were without power. 

Outages affected customers who utilize a variety of electric companies. Wisconsin Electric Power Company said 14,008 of its customers lost power, while Xcel Energy reported 9,615 of its customers were without power. Wisconsin Public Service said 7,190 customers lost power. Alliant Energy said its customers accounted for 1,461 outages. 

Additional power companies also reported outages impacting less than 1,000 customers per respective company. 

Get up-to-date outage reports, here. 

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