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

Power outage history

Jackson County Minnesota

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

Worst outage on record Jun 22, 2015 11% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 hours
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% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8hours Feb 23, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days – Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 5,169 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 Jackson'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

Jackson, hours without power per customer

JacksonUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’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
Feb 23, 2017 Winter storm 157 3% 8.2 h – 1.3k
Jun 22, 2015 Windstorm 578 11% 2.0 h 2.2 h 1.0k
Feb 7, 2017 No storm report 156 3% 2.2 h – 351
Jan 25, 2017 Winter storm 156 3% 2.0 h – 312
Jan 7, 2017 No storm report 144 3% 1.8 h – 252
Mar 7, 2017 No storm report 58 1% 3.2 h – 185
Jan 8, 2015 Winter storm 152 3% 1.0 h – 152
Jul 23, 2016 No storm report 159 3% 1.0 h – 146
May 26, 2016 Thunderstorms 71 1% 1.5 h – 102
Feb 28, 2017 No storm report 73 1% 1.2 h – 91
Aug 18, 2016 No storm report 71 1% 1.2 h – 86
Oct 7, 2016 No storm report 75 1% 1.0 h – 75

When it happens

The outage clock

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

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Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Jackson

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
Nobles Cooperative Electric MN 3,714 223 2.57 11.3 96k
City of Jackson MN – – – 13.4 13k
City of Lakefield MN – – – – 7.6k
Federated Rural Electric Assn Cooperative 116 116 1.22 12.8 5.7k
South Central Electric Assn Cooperative 125 91 1.15 15.5 4.7k
City of Alpha MN – – – – 659

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 5,169 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 →