Big Stone County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

Big Stone County, Minnesota had 1 major outage from 2020 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.12 times the US outage time per person and 0.31 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 54 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: Medium, with 4 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 4years with a major outage

12 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Janhardest months

February and January made up 80% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 15, 2023, reached 279 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 11.5 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2020	656	3	0
2021	1,407	2	0
2022	494	3	0
2023	3,278	2	1

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Feb 15, 2023	11.5	279	3,208
Jan 15, 2021	2.2	336	756
Jan 15, 2021	1.8	387	651
Jun 9, 2020	1.2	336	420
Aug 7, 2022	1.0	300	300

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.