Wright County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.21 times the US outage time per person and 0.56 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 43 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

30 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 37% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 11, 2017, reached 13,803 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 30.5 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	31,901	35	0
2016	108,378	45	1
2017	133,256	34	1
2018	33,548	28	0
2019	75,908	31	0
2020	62,658	45	0
2021	48,913	32	0
2022	91,515	47	1
2023	126,478	49	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	30.5	13,803	89,498
Jul 5, 2016	21.8	16,996	47,584
Apr 1, 2023	7.2	7,435	28,136
May 30, 2022	15.0	8,071	25,102
Jul 19, 2023	4.5	9,510	24,034

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.