Todd County, Minnesota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Todd County, Minnesota had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.01 times the US outage time per person and 2.70 times the Minnesota rate. It ranks 12 of 79 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

69 hrslongest major outage

Jul, Mayhardest months

July and May made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jul 21, 2016, reached 4,804 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 62.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	174,652	35	7
2016	186,613	37	4
2017	36,292	25	1
2018	42,662	34	2
2019	12,052	12	0
2020	6,935	11	0
2021	23,117	12	2
2022	80,264	16	3
2023	15,032	15	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
Jul 21, 2016	62.0	4,804	88,163
Jul 14, 2015	69.0	917	52,617
May 13, 2022	35.0	2,539	49,770
Aug 4, 2016	32.2	1,431	27,872
Jul 13, 2015	26.8	961	21,516

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.