Power outages in Minnesota
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Minnesota counties (87)
- Aitkin
- Anoka
- Becker
- Beltrami
- Benton
- Big Stone
- Blue Earth
- Brown
- Carlton
- Carver
- Cass
- Chippewa
- Chisago
- Clay
- Clearwater
- Cook
- Cottonwood
- Crow Wing
- Dakota
- Dodge
- Douglas
- Faribault
- Fillmore
- Freeborn
- Goodhue
- Grant
- Hennepin
- Houston
- Hubbard
- Isanti
- Itasca
- Jackson
- Kanabec
- Kandiyohi
- Kittson
- Koochiching
- Lac qui Parle
- Lake
- Lake of the Woods
- Le Sueur
- Lincoln
- Lyon
- Mahnomen
- Marshall
- Martin
- McLeod
- Meeker
- Mille Lacs
- Morrison
- Mower
- Murray
- Nicollet
- Nobles
- Norman
- Olmsted
- Otter Tail
- Pennington
- Pine
- Pipestone
- Polk
- Pope
- Ramsey
- Red Lake
- Redwood
- Renville
- Rice
- Rock
- Roseau
- Scott
- Sherburne
- Sibley
- St. Louis
- Stearns
- Steele
- Stevens
- Swift
- Todd
- Traverse
- Wabasha
- Wadena
- Waseca
- Washington
- Watonwan
- Wilkin
- Winona
- Wright
- Yellow Medicine
Utility coverage in Minnesota
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Also tracked live — opens in the app
ALLETE / Minnesota Power · Connexus Energy (MN) · Dakota Electric Association (MN) · Otter Tail Power (MN/ND/SD) · East Central Energy (MN/WI) · Rochester Public Utilities (MN) · Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric (MN) · Lake Country Power (MN) · Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative (MN) · Lake Region Electric Cooperative (MN) · Stearns Cooperative Electric Association (MN) · Freeborn-Mower Electric Cooperative (MN) · +7 more — search any utility name on the live map
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Minnesota.
Historical outage patterns in Minnesota
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 15,759 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Minnesota between 2014 and 2025 for the 84 counties the federal record covers — 142 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 2.7 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (39% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2025.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~84,596 customers out in Hennepin County in June 2023, restored after about 40.8 hr.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: May 2022 (17 counties), June 2025 (12 counties) and July 2023 (11 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Hennepin County (~7.8 hr typical), Ramsey County (~4.5 hr typical) and Aitkin County (~3.7 hr typical) — against ~2.7 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Minnesota?
Electric utilities we track in Minnesota include Xcel Energy, ALLETE / Minnesota Power, Connexus Energy, Dakota Electric Association and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.