Dakota County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Dakota County, Minnesota had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.18 times the US outage time per person and 0.48 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 46 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

42 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 32% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 21,324 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 42.2 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
2015	87,026	75	0
2016	58,746	54	0
2017	156,072	64	1
2018	184,281	88	2
2019	140,040	82	0
2020	120,518	98	0
2021	334,537	94	2
2022	221,949	122	1
2023	485,046	155	2

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
Apr 1, 2023	42.2	21,324	208,803
Sep 17, 2021	41.8	15,619	192,437
Jun 14, 2017	33.0	7,239	49,901
Oct 10, 2023	4.5	13,612	36,346
Aug 3, 2022	16.0	8,611	33,554

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.