Lake County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lake County, Minnesota had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.40 times the US outage time per person and 3.74 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 7 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

103 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Julhardest months

April and July made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 11, 2019, reached 2,787 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 102.8 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	1,118	4	0
2016	65,201	18	4
2017	4,276	8	0
2018	36,451	21	3
2019	149,563	17	2
2020	7,994	9	0
2021	8,719	7	0
2022	21,593	32	1
2023	35,051	6	3

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 11, 2019	102.8	2,787	127,020
Jul 23, 2016	66.5	432	26,683
Jul 26, 2016	57.5	368	18,907
Apr 15, 2019	37.5	457	14,514
May 30, 2018	36.8	463	14,085

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.