Crow Wing County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Crow Wing County, Minnesota had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.11 times the US outage time per person and 2.97 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 11 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

May, Julhardest months

May and July made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 30, 2022, reached 14,167 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.0 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	215,783	45	4
2016	237,786	62	5
2017	98,472	22	2
2018	58,064	34	2
2019	33,986	35	0
2020	51,705	41	1
2021	90,631	51	1
2022	854,081	56	3
2023	40,172	45	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
May 30, 2022	68.0	14,167	336,768
Dec 15, 2022	61.2	10,842	293,848
Jun 21, 2022	45.8	11,080	163,200
Jul 21, 2016	43.2	5,297	96,622
Jul 13, 2015	18.2	6,525	90,639

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.