Ramsey County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ramsey County, Minnesota had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.33 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 31 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

51 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 20, 2023, reached 59,372 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.2 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	188,224	143	0
2016	193,492	116	1
2017	456,856	124	3
2018	323,680	141	1
2019	353,861	136	3
2020	501,579	169	3
2021	326,458	148	1
2022	461,032	174	3
2023	1,173,712	294	8

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
Jul 20, 2023	28.2	59,372	356,082
Apr 1, 2023	48.2	17,196	298,930
Jun 14, 2017	33.2	15,265	106,380
Jul 16, 2019	25.8	18,231	104,393
Jun 10, 2017	50.8	12,759	81,834

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.