St. Louis County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

St. Louis County, Minnesota had 45 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.28 times the US outage time per person and 3.42 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 8 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

108 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Junhardest months

July and June made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2016, reached 34,294 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 107.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	71,062	46	1
2016	2,558,437	147	9
2017	300,601	114	3
2018	637,616	125	7
2019	221,112	106	1
2020	345,262	133	4
2021	410,170	163	5
2022	794,454	152	13
2023	317,895	149	2

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 21, 2016	107.8	34,294	1,879,552
Nov 18, 2016	68.8	7,048	207,138
Jun 21, 2022	72.2	9,065	201,096
Dec 15, 2022	35.5	7,856	154,705
Nov 26, 2021	82.2	1,407	102,452

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.