Dickey County, North Dakota Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

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Dickey County, North Dakota had 4 major outages from 2018 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 6 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

2 of 6years with a major outage

92 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Aprhardest months

December and April made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 26, 2023, reached 651 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 92.2 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
2018	2,027	3	0
2019	0	0	0
2020	1,353	4	0
2021	630	2	0
2022	24,419	12	3
2023	43,240	5	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 26, 2023	92.2	651	40,314
Apr 7, 2022	17.0	636	10,812
Nov 16, 2022	10.5	440	4,610
Apr 6, 2022	16.2	684	4,457
Sep 5, 2023	5.0	555	2,171

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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