Blue Earth County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Blue Earth County, Minnesota had 5 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.20 times the US outage time per person and 0.52 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 44 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.6major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

36 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Mayhardest months

July and May made up 41% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 28, 2023, reached 10,374 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 15.8 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	12,097	8	0
2016	24,395	18	0
2017	17,447	12	1
2018	21,587	15	1
2019	66,182	30	1
2020	29,128	21	0
2021	21,148	21	0
2022	48,682	20	1
2023	64,613	28	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
Jul 28, 2023	15.8	10,374	36,031
Apr 11, 2019	36.2	2,481	27,372
May 12, 2022	8.2	5,847	18,816
May 12, 2022	6.8	2,193	9,385
Sep 10, 2023	1.2	9,225	7,690

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.