Hettinger County, North Dakota Power Outages, 2018 to 2023

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Hettinger County, North Dakota had 3 major outages from 2018 to 2023

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We show this record but do not rank it because the history is short, the population is very small, or customer counts look too high for the population. Treat these numbers with caution. Data confidence: Low, with 6 years of records.

0.5major outages per year

2 of 6years with a major outage

173 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 90% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 5, 2022, reached 362 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 173.2 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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2018	2,140	3	0
2019	6,286	3	1
2020	4,188	4	0
2021	462	1	0
2022	92,376	8	2
2023	3,645	5	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
Jun 5, 2022	173.2	362	62,378
Jun 3, 2022	66.5	1,017	25,179
Jul 13, 2019	8.5	859	3,877
Aug 11, 2020	2.5	1,009	2,061
Jun 7, 2020	2.0	1,021	1,870

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.
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