Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.38 times the US outage time per person and 1.03 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 27 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

35 hrslongest major outage

May, Aprhardest months

May and April made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began May 30, 2022, reached 541 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 35.0 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	3,094	2	0
2016	1,954	3	0
2017	2,124	2	0
2018	5,481	5	0
2019	13,700	12	0
2020	16,406	9	1
2021	1,616	3	0
2022	34,802	16	4
2023	0	0	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
May 30, 2022	35.0	541	8,952
Aug 8, 2020	21.5	1,654	8,691
May 12, 2022	16.2	726	6,361
Apr 12, 2022	25.0	449	6,068
May 30, 2022	11.2	622	5,650

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.