Emmons County, North Dakota Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

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Emmons County, North Dakota had no major outages from 2017 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 7 years of records.

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0 of 7years with a major outage

Nonelongest major outage

Sep, Julhardest months

September and July made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 24, 2020, reached 958 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 2.2 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
2017	1,234	4
2018	126	1
2019	798	2
2020	3,705	5
2021	0	0
2022	5,247	11
2023	1,473	4

When outages hit

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 24, 2020	2.2	958	1,971
Jul 19, 2022	3.2	691	1,907
Sep 30, 2020	1.2	946	1,182
May 20, 2017	3.0	264	792
Jun 18, 2022	1.8	423	740

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.
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