Hubbard County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Hubbard County, Minnesota had 15 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.46 times the US outage time per person and 3.91 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 6 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

68 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aughardest months

July and August made up 73% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2016, reached 6,882 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.5 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	167,520	45	3
2016	406,062	19	5
2017	41,216	19	2
2018	24,618	23	0
2019	8,714	13	1
2020	15,797	16	1
2021	10,253	5	1
2022	25,782	19	1
2023	10,178	11	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
Jul 21, 2016	68.5	6,882	242,699
Jul 14, 2015	67.5	1,454	61,576
Jul 24, 2016	31.2	4,518	58,936
Aug 4, 2016	41.0	1,823	49,120
Jul 13, 2015	26.8	1,446	37,734

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.