Washington County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Minnesota had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.43 times the US outage time per person and 1.15 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 21 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Aprhardest months

July and April made up 42% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 1, 2023, reached 22,040 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 63.8 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	89,296	79	0
2016	163,680	78	0
2017	320,251	48	4
2018	260,361	100	3
2019	217,527	85	2
2020	239,856	94	1
2021	372,306	77	3
2022	251,519	105	3
2023	790,284	151	6

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 1, 2023	63.8	22,040	438,866
Sep 17, 2021	37.8	19,003	177,205
Jul 12, 2017	40.5	14,745	145,984
Aug 15, 2020	39.2	18,933	85,036
Jul 19, 2023	22.0	22,519	69,794

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.