Scott County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Scott County, Minnesota had 3 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.12 times the US outage time per person and 0.32 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 54 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.3major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

12 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Junhardest months

September and June made up 36% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 17, 2021, reached 5,679 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 9.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	11,236	14	0
2016	44,028	37	1
2017	49,314	31	0
2018	50,904	37	0
2019	57,557	31	0
2020	56,434	35	0
2021	57,581	24	1
2022	49,550	26	1
2023	40,053	17	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
Sep 17, 2021	9.2	5,679	24,378
Sep 7, 2020	6.2	3,186	18,978
Jun 24, 2023	5.2	8,889	15,625
Jan 30, 2019	4.8	3,337	15,581
Apr 6, 2018	4.2	3,610	13,261

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.