City of Moorhead, MN
How often City of Moorhead goes out
City of Moorhead customers in Minnesota rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 15 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 92% less outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
How long a single City of Moorhead outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 33 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for City of Moorhead
Serving 21,278 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Moorhead customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Moorhead files with federal regulators every year - serving 21,278 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Minnesota average instead of just this one utility? Minnesota's statewide record is here. Storm days are counted in - here is why.