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

Power outage history

Wadena County Minnesota

1.0hours

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

84% below the national median

Worst outage on record May 12, 2022 24% of customers out · 90% back in 22 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.0h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.8 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 23hours May 12, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 50% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 2.4 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,800 ORNL customer model · 4 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 Wadena'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Wadena, hours without power per customer

WadenaUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 1.2 ’15 2.5 ’16 3.5 ’17 0.4 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 2.4 ’22 ’23 0.4 ’24 0.9 ’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 2,087 24% 23 h 22 h 10k
Aug 4, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,415 16% 8.8 h 4.2 h 6.6k
Mar 31, 2017 No storm report 1,294 15% 4.5 h 4.2 h 4.9k
Jul 12, 2015 Thunderstorms 294 3% 15 h – 3.6k
Jun 21, 2025 No storm report 461 5% 8.0 h 8.5 h 3.3k
Nov 6, 2017 No storm report 1,085 12% 5.5 h 5.5 h 3.3k
May 31, 2022 Thunderstorms 459 5% 7.0 h 7.0 h 3.2k
Jun 24, 2022 No storm report 716 8% 5.0 h 5.0 h 3.2k
May 30, 2022 Thunderstorms 667 8% 6.0 h 5.8 h 2.7k
Jul 21, 2016 No storm report 202 2% 15 h – 2.1k
Nov 25, 2025 Winter storm 2,062 23% 2.5 h 7.5 h 2.0k
Jul 31, 2024 No storm report 911 10% 2.2 h 1.8 h 1.9k

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 +4h 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 Wadena from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 51%
  • Thunderstorms 38%
  • Winter storm 8.0%
  • Windstorm 3.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wadena

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
Todd-Wadena Electric Coop MN 73 66 0.83 11.0 128k
ALLETE, Inc. Investor Owned 143 102 1.23 15.9 127k
Lake Region Electric Cooperative Cooperative 227 121 1.55 13.6 27k
City of Wadena MN 2 – 0.02 9.5 22k
Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn Cooperative 196 105 1.49 13.1 11k

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 8,800 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 →