Otter Tail County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Otter Tail County, Minnesota had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.90 times the US outage time per person and 2.39 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 14 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

64 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Mayhardest months

June and May made up 51% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 20, 2022, reached 8,370 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 64.5 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	65,531	67	1
2016	105,570	74	4
2017	96,440	58	1
2018	73,928	62	0
2019	43,631	33	1
2020	171,895	52	5
2021	92,782	64	1
2022	420,593	54	5
2023	130,217	108	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
Jun 20, 2022	64.5	8,370	173,073
May 13, 2022	23.2	12,946	139,086
Jun 14, 2017	25.2	4,740	54,483
Jul 8, 2020	32.2	3,871	44,724
Jun 9, 2020	12.5	9,909	43,422

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.