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

Power outage history

Martin County Minnesota

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

Worst outage on record Jan 4, 2015 12% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 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% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 15hours Jun 22, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days – Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 10,513 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 Martin'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

Martin, hours without power per customer

MartinUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’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
Jun 22, 2015 Thunderstorms 464 4% 15 h – 5.1k
Jan 4, 2015 No storm report 1,248 12% 5.8 h 4.5 h 3.5k
Jan 24, 2015 No storm report 562 5% 5.8 h 1.0 h 2.9k
Sep 22, 2017 No storm report 503 5% 1.5 h – 754
May 17, 2015 No storm report 197 2% 1.5 h – 289
Oct 14, 2016 No storm report 524 5% 30 min – 262
Jun 1, 2017 No storm report 511 5% 30 min – 256
May 21, 2015 No storm report 197 2% 30 min – 98

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.

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Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Martin

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
Fairmont Public Utilities Comm MN – – – 11.8 37k
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
Truman Public Utilities Comm MN – – – – 4.0k
City of Ceylon MN – – – – 1.9k

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 10,513 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 →