Itasca County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Itasca County, Minnesota had 32 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.54 times the US outage time per person and 4.10 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 4 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

104 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 49% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2016, reached 7,071 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 104.5 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	29,830	25	1
2016	491,688	104	6
2017	128,659	42	3
2018	46,151	32	4
2019	32,378	30	1
2020	98,245	47	3
2021	128,646	44	5
2022	477,824	67	9
2023	102,885	31	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	104.5	7,071	274,748
May 31, 2022	49.2	7,982	136,538
Jun 21, 2022	50.5	7,095	124,682
Nov 18, 2016	65.0	2,126	67,059
Jul 31, 2017	15.8	4,102	64,591

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.