Cass County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cass County, Minnesota had 31 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.08 times the US outage time per person and 8.22 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 1 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.4major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

109 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Mayhardest months

July and May made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2016, reached 14,111 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 108.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	123,134	77	3
2016	954,116	68	9
2017	96,849	50	4
2018	88,784	84	3
2019	55,146	42	1
2020	120,764	53	4
2021	65,729	61	1
2022	604,636	61	6
2023	21,890	32	0

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
Jul 21, 2016	108.8	14,111	707,239
May 30, 2022	50.5	8,131	194,509
Dec 15, 2022	63.2	5,681	178,914
Jun 21, 2022	44.0	7,984	131,499
Nov 18, 2016	51.5	4,677	103,916

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.