Power Out Map
– 0% of Red Lake out 0 customers out in Minnesota

Power outage history

Red Lake County Minnesota

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

Worst outage on record Aug 13, 2020 7% of customers out · 90% back in 3.6 days
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 3.6days Aug 13, 2020, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 47% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 2,280 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 Red Lake's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Red Lake, hours without power per customer

Red LakeUS median countyMinnesota average
0 5 10 15 20 ’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
Aug 13, 2020 Thunderstorms 159 7% 3.6 d 3.6 d 13k
Sep 14, 2020 No storm report 159 7% 2.9 d 2.9 d 11k
Jun 20, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,280 100% 18 h 17 h 8.9k
May 13, 2022 No storm report 2,193 96% 2.2 h 2.2 h 4.4k
Aug 8, 2025 Thunderstorms 568 25% 12 h 8.2 h 3.8k
Oct 14, 2020 No storm report 159 7% 25 h 25 h 3.7k
Jun 21, 2025 Thunderstorms 618 27% 9.5 h 1.2 h 3.7k
Sep 8, 2023 No storm report 1,447 63% 2.5 h 1.8 h 3.0k
Jul 27, 2025 No storm report 1,323 58% 4.5 h 3.0 h 2.3k
Dec 9, 2023 No storm report 563 25% 6.2 h 12 min 2.0k
May 4, 2020 No storm report 1,604 70% 1.0 h 1.0 h 1.6k
Jun 7, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,897 83% 4.0 h 30 min 1.3k

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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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Red Lake from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 53%
  • Thunderstorms 45%
  • Winter storm 1.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Red Lake

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
Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc MN 130 130 0.74 12.2 93k
Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc MN 116 116 0.43 13.6 63k
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 557 136 1.74 11.3 50k

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

  • Polk 1.8 h
  • Red Lake (this county) – h

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 2,280 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 →