Stearns County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Stearns County, Minnesota had 7 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.19 times the US outage time per person and 0.50 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 45 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.8major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

35 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 11, 2017, reached 11,606 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 34.8 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	23,687	42	0
2016	41,986	25	0
2017	144,817	26	1
2018	56,018	38	0
2019	70,224	26	1
2020	59,485	20	1
2021	60,206	22	1
2022	106,998	33	2
2023	106,152	50	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
Jun 11, 2017	34.8	11,606	97,650
Jul 26, 2023	14.8	7,604	48,167
May 13, 2022	25.5	3,959	35,352
Aug 28, 2021	26.5	3,331	25,332
May 30, 2022	12.0	4,470	23,755

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.