Barnes County, North Dakota Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Barnes County, North Dakota had 2 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 2.87 times the North Dakota rate. It ranks 4 of 23 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.2major outages per year

2 of 9years with a major outage

140 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Febhardest months

December and February made up 92% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 26, 2023, reached 2,040 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 140.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated North Dakota counties

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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
2015	174	2	0
2016	14,253	10	1
2017	1,231	6	0
2018	0	0	0
2019	528	1	0
2020	4,906	16	0
2021	4,854	5	0
2022	5,085	5	0
2023	169,646	8	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	140.0	2,040	166,552
Dec 26, 2016	15.2	821	7,210
Feb 4, 2021	4.2	1,113	3,544
Dec 26, 2016	4.8	793	2,795
Jun 18, 2020	4.2	508	1,960

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.