Burke County, North Dakota Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

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Burke County, North Dakota had 1 major outage from 2017 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 7 years of records.

0.1major outages per year

1 of 7years with a major outage

28 hrslongest major outage

Apr, Marhardest months

April and March made up 82% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Apr 23, 2022, reached 568 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 28.0 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
2017	2,434	3	0
2018	1,484	1	0
2019	3,323	3	0
2020	2,570	9	0
2021	643	1	0
2022	15,532	3	1
2023	468	3	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
Apr 23, 2022	28.0	568	14,898
Apr 28, 2019	6.0	452	2,410
Mar 6, 2018	3.0	524	1,484
Mar 8, 2017	3.2	318	1,012
Dec 26, 2019	3.2	261	845

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.
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