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

Power outage history

Wright County Minnesota

1.6hours

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

42nd most of 54 in Minnesota 75% below the national median

Worst outage on record Jun 11, 2017 22% of customers out · 90% back in 12 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.6h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.8 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 26hours Jun 11, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 37% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2023 2.4 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 63,435 ORNL customer model · 8 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 Wright'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

2023 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.

Wright, hours without power per customer

WrightUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 0.8 ’15 2.0 ’16 2.4 ’17 0.8 ’18 1.6 ’19 1.3 ’20 1.2 ’21 1.8 ’22 2.4 ’23 2.2 ’24 1.5 ’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
Jun 11, 2017 Thunderstorms 13,803 22% 26 h 12 h 88k
Jul 5, 2016 Thunderstorms 16,996 27% 19 h 5.2 h 46k
Aug 11, 2024 No storm report 7,268 11% 4.8 h 5.5 h 30k
Mar 31, 2023 Winter storm 7,435 12% 6.0 h 3.2 h 28k
Jul 19, 2023 Thunderstorms 9,510 15% 3.5 h 2.2 h 24k
May 30, 2022 Thunderstorms 8,071 13% 6.0 h 3.0 h 22k
Oct 31, 2024 Winter storm 5,472 9% 9.5 h 7.0 h 22k
May 19, 2016 No storm report 1,313 2% 15 h – 20k
Jan 26, 2019 No storm report 4,075 6% 5.2 h 2.8 h 18k
Jun 28, 2025 Thunderstorms 2,057 3% 9.2 h – 17k
May 1, 2024 No storm report 3,725 6% 4.0 h 3.8 h 13k
Oct 13, 2021 No storm report 4,346 7% 3.0 h 1.8 h 12k

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 +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

00061218 Jan inside

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

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

  • No storm on record 63%
  • Thunderstorms 22%
  • Winter storm 12%
  • Tornadoes 1.0%
  • Heat 0.9%
  • Flooding 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Wright

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
McLeod Cooperative Power Assn MN 161 161 1.67 13.1 113k
Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn Cooperative 45 29 0.56 15.0 55k
City of Buffalo MN 20 – 0.23 13.4 42k
Delano Municipal Utilities MN – – – 11.2 22k
City of Elk River Municipal 19 12 0.30 16.3 12k
Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn Cooperative 151 128 1.37 14.0 8.6k

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 63,435 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 →