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

Power outage history

Murray County Minnesota

4.7hours

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

9th most of 54 in Minnesota 29% below the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 11, 2019 40% of customers out · 90% back in 3.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.7h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.8days Apr 10, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 64% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 16 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,226 ORNL customer model · 7 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 Murray'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 16 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Murray, hours without power per customer

MurrayUS median countyMinnesota average
0 5 10 15 20 ’15 ’16 0.4 ’17 2.2 ’18 16 ’19 2.5 ’20 ’21 3.0 ’22 1.1 ’23 2.2 ’24 5.8 ’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 10, 2019 Winter storm 2,084 40% 3.8 d 3.6 d 71k
Apr 3, 2020 No storm report 1,655 32% 5.0 h 2.8 h 8.0k
Aug 5, 2018 Thunderstorms 824 16% 6.5 h 12 min 5.2k
Jul 20, 2019 Thunderstorms 575 11% 24 h 8.2 h 4.9k
Aug 8, 2025 No storm report 1,278 24% 3.8 h 3.8 h 4.8k
Sep 25, 2025 No storm report 280 5% 16 h 21 h 4.5k
May 28, 2022 No storm report 528 10% 8.5 h 8.0 h 4.5k
Aug 22, 2025 No storm report 1,168 22% 3.8 h 8.5 h 4.4k
Aug 28, 2021 Thunderstorms 307 6% 15 h 12 h 3.4k
May 10, 2024 No storm report 440 8% 7.2 h 7.5 h 3.2k
May 30, 2022 Thunderstorms 637 12% 10 h 3.5 h 2.8k
Nov 17, 2025 No storm report 3,967 76% 3.2 h 48 min 2.5k

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 +6h 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 Murray from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 47%
  • No storm on record 36%
  • Thunderstorms 12%
  • Ice storm 2.6%
  • Flooding 1.2%
  • Heat 1.1%
  • Windstorm 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Murray

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
Redwood Electric Coop MN 235 23 1.05 11.5 58k
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
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+

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 5,226 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 →