Power outage history
Nobles County Minnesota
1.9hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
72% below the national median
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 Nobles's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 1.9 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Nobles, hours without power per customer
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 11, 2025 | No storm report | 1,158 | 13% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 3.4k |
| Jul 31, 2025 | No storm report | 199 | 2% | 15 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jun 22, 2015 | Windstorm | 445 | 5% | 6.2 h | – | 2.1k |
| Jul 22, 2025 | No storm report | 93 | 1% | 20 h | – | 1.9k |
| Jun 18, 2015 | No storm report | 736 | 8% | 2.2 h | 2.2 h | 1.7k |
| Sep 30, 2025 | No storm report | 591 | 7% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 1.5k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | No storm report | 251 | 3% | 2.0 h | – | 456 |
| Oct 11, 2025 | No storm report | 91 | 1% | 5.0 h | – | 455 |
| Aug 17, 2025 | No storm report | 200 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 300 |
| Jun 29, 2025 | No storm report | 197 | 2% | 1.5 h | – | 274 |
| Mar 30, 2025 | No storm report | 94 | 1% | 2.8 h | – | 256 |
| Nov 25, 2025 | Windstorm | 92 | 1% | 1.5 h | – | 138 |
| Nov 25, 2025 | No storm report | 112 | 1% | 1.0 h | – | 112 |
| Aug 1, 2025 | No storm report | 195 | 2% | 30 min | – | 98 |
| Nov 17, 2025 | No storm report | 157 | 2% | 30 min | – | 78 |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Nobles from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 99%
- Windstorm 1.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Nobles
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 |
| Adrian Public Utilities Comm | MN | – | – | – | 11.6 | 6.8k |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | Cooperative | 116 | 116 | 1.22 | 12.8 | 5.7k |
| City of Worthington | Municipal | 8 | – | 0.19 | 12.2 | 4.7k |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | Cooperative | 95 | 95 | 1.90 | 13.5 | 3.4k |
| City of Brewster | MN | – | – | – | 10.6 | 2.3k |
| City of Round Lake | MN | – | – | – | – | 1.5k |
| City of Rushmore | MN | – | – | – | – | 1.5k |
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
- Osceola, IA 6.3 h
- Murray 4.7 h
- Rock 3.1 h
- Lyon, IA 2.4 h
- Nobles (this county) 1.9 h
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 9,001 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 →