Rice County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Rice County, Minnesota had 4 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.35 times the US outage time per person and 0.94 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 30 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.4major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Julhardest months

September and July made up 67% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 21, 2018, reached 8,760 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 74.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	16,735	18	0
2016	88,996	26	1
2017	22,462	16	1
2018	261,324	20	1
2019	27,352	25	0
2020	23,351	22	0
2021	49,514	21	1
2022	33,225	14	0
2023	13,970	17	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
Sep 21, 2018	74.8	8,760	238,957
Jul 6, 2016	19.0	12,884	63,288
Apr 12, 2022	7.8	3,893	12,046
Jun 12, 2017	9.0	2,611	9,060
Sep 18, 2022	2.8	3,877	8,684

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.