Foster County, North Dakota Power Outages, 2020 to 2023

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Foster County, North Dakota had 1 major outage from 2020 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 4 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

1 of 4years with a major outage

30 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Janhardest months

December and January made up 93% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 27, 2023, reached 1,098 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2020	341	3	0
2021	126	1	0
2022	126	1	0
2023	36,040	4	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
Dec 27, 2023	30.5	1,098	32,228
Jun 7, 2023	1.8	1,146	1,898
Jan 4, 2023	1.2	1,148	1,269
Jan 4, 2023	1.0	645	645
Mar 1, 2020	0.2	582	146

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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