Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2021 to 2023

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Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota had 1 major outage from 2021 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 3 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

1 of 3years with a major outage

39 hrslongest major outage

May, Aughardest months

May and August made up 100% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 12, 2022, reached 1,717 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 39.2 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
2021	1,150	1	0
2022	33,472	3	1
2023	250	1	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 12, 2022	39.2	1,717	33,300
Aug 5, 2021	3.2	354	1,150
May 11, 2023	1.2	200	250
Oct 21, 2022	0.2	354	88
Sep 30, 2022	0.2	331	83

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.
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