Power outage history
Becker County Minnesota
1.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
51st most of 54 in Minnesota 84% below the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Becker's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Becker, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 840 | 3% | 29 h | – | 10k |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,212 | 5% | 19 h | – | 8.8k |
| Jun 24, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 647 | 3% | 18 h | – | 8.2k |
| Jan 24, 2019 | No storm report | 619 | 3% | 12 h | – | 6.2k |
| Jul 22, 2018 | No storm report | 3,054 | 12% | 7.0 h | 6.8 h | 6.0k |
| May 15, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 2,140 | 9% | 4.8 h | 4.2 h | 5.7k |
| Jul 8, 2020 | No storm report | 1,143 | 5% | 7.0 h | – | 4.3k |
| May 19, 2025 | No storm report | 624 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 2.8k |
| Sep 10, 2020 | No storm report | 290 | 1% | 9.2 h | – | 2.7k |
| Aug 14, 2024 | No storm report | 764 | 3% | 3.5 h | – | 2.7k |
| Jul 9, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 788 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 2.4k |
| Jul 31, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 686 | 3% | 5.0 h | – | 2.4k |
| Jul 4, 2025 | No storm report | 1,499 | 6% | 2.2 h | 3.2 h | 2.0k |
| May 11, 2022 | No storm report | 467 | 2% | 4.2 h | – | 2.0k |
| May 12, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 603 | 2% | 3.2 h | – | 1.9k |
| Jan 1, 2022 | No storm report | 1,110 | 5% | 1.8 h | – | 1.9k |
| Apr 21, 2023 | Winter storm | 410 | 2% | 6.0 h | – | 1.8k |
| Aug 13, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 371 | 2% | 5.8 h | – | 1.8k |
| Oct 20, 2025 | No storm report | 464 | 2% | 3.8 h | – | 1.7k |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 519 | 2% | 3.2 h | – | 1.6k |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Winter storm | 586 | 2% | 3.0 h | – | 1.6k |
| Sep 20, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 619 | 3% | 3.2 h | – | 1.6k |
| Sep 8, 2025 | No storm report | 798 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 1.5k |
| Jul 27, 2018 | No storm report | 1,527 | 6% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.5k |
| Apr 16, 2021 | No storm report | 898 | 4% | 1.5 h | – | 1.3k |
| Jun 2, 2024 | No storm report | 1,349 | 5% | 1.0 h | 1.0 h | 1.3k |
| Nov 17, 2017 | No storm report | 383 | 2% | 3.5 h | – | 1.3k |
| Jun 9, 2025 | No storm report | 421 | 2% | 2.8 h | – | 1.2k |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 572 | 2% | 2.5 h | – | 1.1k |
| Jun 20, 2019 | No storm report | 669 | 3% | 1.5 h | – | 1.0k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Becker from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 60%
- Thunderstorms 35%
- Winter storm 4.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Becker
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Minnesota territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | MN | 73 | 66 | 0.83 | 11.0 | 128k |
| City of Detroit Lakes | MN | 6 | 6 | 0.08 | 10.3 | 71k |
| Otter Tail Power Co | Investor Owned | 557 | 136 | 1.74 | 11.3 | 50k |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative | Cooperative | 227 | 121 | 1.55 | 13.6 | 27k |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 688 | 259 | 2.67 | 14.7 | 14k |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | Cooperative | 196 | 105 | 1.49 | 13.1 | 11k |
| City of Lake Park | MN | – | – | – | – | 4.2k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 24,622 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →