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

Power outage history

Lincoln County Minnesota

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

Worst outage on record May 12, 2022 42% of customers out · 90% back in 40 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 40hours May 12, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 52% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 2,548 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 Lincoln'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

Lincoln, hours without power per customer

LincolnUS median countyMinnesota average
0 5 10 15 ’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
May 12, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,065 42% 40 h 40 h 24k
Jun 21, 2022 No storm report 1,526 60% 10 h 9.8 h 5.3k
Jun 24, 2023 No storm report 1,448 57% 3.0 h 5.8 h 3.7k
Nov 17, 2025 No storm report 1,409 55% 2.2 h 2.0 h 2.9k
Apr 11, 2023 No storm report 440 17% 5.8 h 5.8 h 2.5k
May 6, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,087 43% 2.8 h 2.2 h 2.4k
Apr 5, 2023 No storm report 1,349 53% 2.8 h 2.0 h 2.4k
Oct 13, 2023 No storm report 834 33% 3.5 h 1.0 h 1.8k
Dec 11, 2023 No storm report 441 17% 2.2 h 2.0 h 893
Mar 29, 2021 No storm report 1,519 60% 30 min 30 min 760
Feb 23, 2025 No storm report 196 8% 3.8 h 3.0 h 713
Jun 11, 2022 No storm report 454 18% 1.5 h 1.5 h 681

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.

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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 Lincoln from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 51%
  • No storm on record 48%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lincoln

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
Nobles Cooperative Electric MN 3,714 223 2.57 11.3 96k
Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. MN 349 127 2.02 11.5 77k
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 557 136 1.74 11.3 50k
City of Tyler MN – – – – 7.8k
Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn Cooperative 125 65 1.51 13.2 4.9k
Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop Cooperative 95 95 1.90 13.5 3.4k

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 2,548 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 →