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

Power outage history

Dodge County Minnesota

3.9hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

15th most of 54 in Minnesota 41% below the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 11, 2019 49% of customers out · 90% back in 36 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 3.9h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 39hours Apr 11, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 69% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 13 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,199 ORNL customer model · 8 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 Dodge's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 13 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Dodge, hours without power per customer

DodgeUS median countyMinnesota average
0 5 10 15 0.2 ’15 1.2 ’16 1.2 ’17 1.6 ’18 13 ’19 2.2 ’20 5.6 ’21 2.3 ’22 2.2 ’23 1.3 ’24 2.9 ’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
Apr 11, 2019 Winter storm 3,059 49% 39 h 36 h 56k
Dec 15, 2021 Thunderstorms 3,852 62% 38 h 1.2 h 28k
Jul 28, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,366 22% 15 h 14 h 8.2k
Apr 28, 2022 No storm report 969 16% 4.0 h 12 h 3.9k
Aug 11, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,166 19% 6.8 h 3.5 h 3.8k
Mar 4, 2025 No storm report 837 14% 3.5 h 1.8 h 2.9k
Feb 4, 2019 No storm report 717 12% 4.0 h 12 h 2.9k
Sep 20, 2018 Thunderstorms 238 4% 29 h – 2.8k
Mar 1, 2016 No storm report 709 11% 7.0 h 6.8 h 2.7k
Jun 4, 2019 Thunderstorms 343 6% 11 h 12 h 2.5k
Sep 24, 2019 Thunderstorms 324 5% 9.0 h 7.0 h 2.4k
Jul 20, 2019 Thunderstorms 608 10% 16 h 11 h 2.4k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

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

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • Winter storm 36%
  • Thunderstorms 32%
  • No storm on record 31%
  • Flooding 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Dodge

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
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Investor Owned 226 115 1.38 17.1 1.2M
Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn MN 111 28 1.08 12.7 89k
People's Cooperative Services Cooperative 99 45 1.23 17.2 22k
City of Kasson MN – – – – 18k
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative Cooperative 172 56 1.58 15.3 18k
Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric Cooperative 90 56 0.74 16.5 11k
City of Blooming Prairie MN 138 138 1.02 – 7.1k

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+

All Minnesota 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 6,199 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 →