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

Power outage history

Stevens County Minnesota

2.5hours

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

62% below the national median

Worst outage on record May 12, 2022 54% of customers out · 90% back in 38 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.5h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 16.0 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 39hours May 12, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 65% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 2.5 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 6,634 ORNL customer model · 1 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 Stevens'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

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Stevens, hours without power per customer

StevensUS median countyMinnesota average
0 5 10 15 20 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 2.5 ’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 3,612 54% 39 h 38 h 86k
Jul 25, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,778 42% 17 h 12 h 23k
Feb 5, 2022 No storm report 313 5% 21 h – 6.6k
Nov 29, 2024 No storm report 744 11% 12 h 11 h 5.2k
Oct 11, 2022 No storm report 1,602 24% 11 h 11 h 5.0k
Sep 4, 2020 No storm report 191 3% 26 h – 4.7k
Aug 31, 2025 No storm report 1,436 22% 3.0 h 2.8 h 3.9k
May 16, 2025 No storm report 608 9% 5.2 h 14 h 3.1k
Sep 20, 2022 No storm report 1,703 26% 18 h 12 min 2.9k
Sep 1, 2021 No storm report 131 2% 24 h – 2.8k
Sep 19, 2023 No storm report 394 6% 6.8 h 13 h 2.7k
Sep 26, 2023 No storm report 396 6% 6.5 h 6.5 h 2.6k

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 +8h

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

  • Thunderstorms 63%
  • No storm on record 35%
  • Flooding 1.1%
  • Winter storm 0.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Stevens

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
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 557 136 1.74 11.3 50k
Traverse Electric Coop, Inc MN – – – 11.6 38k
Runestone Electric Assn Cooperative 135 116 1.57 14.8 14k
Agralite Electric Coop Cooperative 255 73 1.99 13.7 4.3k
WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration Federal – – – – –

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 6,634 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 →