Carlton County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Carlton County, Minnesota had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.95 times the US outage time per person and 2.53 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 13 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

88 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Julhardest months

December and July made up 58% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 7,550 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 86.2 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	Major outages
2015	40,047	29	1
2016	163,802	13	4
2017	22,276	28	0
2018	19,795	24	0
2019	46,682	19	2
2020	115,736	23	3
2021	48,612	46	1
2022	275,409	30	2
2023	33,576	21	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 15, 2022	86.2	7,550	249,157
Jul 21, 2016	88.5	3,592	118,893
Mar 29, 2020	33.5	4,527	57,132
Aug 15, 2020	32.8	4,418	27,123
Jun 20, 2016	17.0	3,269	25,543

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.