Power Out Map
– 0% of Clearwater out 0 customers out in Minnesota

Power outage history

Clearwater County Minnesota

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Apr 30, 2020 9% of customers out · lasted 12 min
Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4hours Jul 26, 2025, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 35% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 5,121 ORNL customer model · 0 well-covered years

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 Clearwater's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Clearwater, hours without power per customer

ClearwaterUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’25 US 6.6 MN 2.9

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
Jul 26, 2025 No storm report 106 2% 3.5 h – 371
Jun 21, 2025 Thunderstorms 105 2% 3.2 h – 341
Apr 30, 2020 No storm report 464 9% 12 min – 116
Mar 30, 2023 No storm report 198 4% 30 min – 99
Aug 12, 2018 No storm report 67 1% 2.8 h – 50

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Clearwater from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 65%
  • Thunderstorms 35%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Clearwater

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
Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc MN 130 130 0.74 12.2 93k
Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc MN 116 116 0.43 13.6 63k
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 557 136 1.74 11.3 50k
Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 118 96 1.31 15.5 21k
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
Bagley Public Utilities Comm MN – – – 11.9 5.8k

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

Across Minnesota

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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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 5,121 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 →