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

Power outage history

Traverse County Minnesota

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

Worst outage on record Jun 20, 2022 66% of customers out · 90% back in 11 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% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 14hours Jun 20, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 62% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 2,357 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 Traverse'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

Traverse, hours without power per customer

TraverseUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 10 ’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
Jun 20, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,553 66% 14 h 11 h 18k
Apr 2, 2024 No storm report 892 38% 6.0 h 6.0 h 5.4k
Jul 26, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,836 78% 2.5 h 2.5 h 4.6k
Apr 4, 2024 No storm report 892 38% 5.0 h 5.0 h 4.5k
Nov 25, 2025 Winter storm 546 23% 5.5 h 5.0 h 2.6k
Apr 5, 2023 Winter storm 997 42% 1.8 h 48 min 1.7k
Apr 23, 2024 No storm report 278 12% 5.5 h 5.5 h 1.5k
Jul 13, 2023 No storm report 978 41% 1.2 h 30 min 1.2k
May 27, 2022 No storm report 89 4% 11 h – 957
Mar 9, 2023 No storm report 620 26% 1.8 h 48 min 856
Feb 23, 2025 No storm report 608 26% 1.0 h 1.0 h 608
Jun 29, 2024 No storm report 279 12% 2.0 h 2.0 h 551

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.

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

  • Thunderstorms 52%
  • No storm on record 38%
  • Winter storm 9.9%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Traverse

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

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 2,357 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 →