Chisago County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Chisago County, Minnesota had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.36 times the US outage time per person and 0.95 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 29 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

27 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 43% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 15, 2022, reached 1,844 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 27.0 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	47,957	66	0
2016	37,863	12	2
2017	40,611	10	1
2018	14,988	18	0
2019	30,500	17	0
2020	34,322	23	1
2021	41,551	16	1
2022	131,681	24	6
2023	85,097	40	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	27.0	1,844	27,289
May 9, 2022	17.0	5,016	22,260
Jul 12, 2017	14.0	3,686	16,067
Jul 24, 2021	13.8	2,081	15,690
May 31, 2022	17.2	3,654	15,411

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.