Aitkin County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Aitkin County, Minnesota had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.94 times the US outage time per person and 5.18 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 2 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

66 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Dechardest months

July and December made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 3,567 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 36.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	47,829	17	0
2016	248,620	70	7
2017	7,325	14	0
2018	64,835	20	2
2019	12,221	8	1
2020	95,202	15	3
2021	23,256	15	1
2022	188,068	50	5
2023	10,369	14	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
Dec 15, 2022	36.0	3,567	88,462
Jul 23, 2016	66.5	1,825	71,726
Mar 29, 2020	32.5	3,722	65,730
Jul 22, 2016	24.5	3,594	63,083
Sep 1, 2018	20.2	2,841	39,152

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.