When will the power be back in Mendota Heights, MN?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Mendota Heights is a city of about 11,542 residents in Dakota County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Mendota Heights by name, so this page reports the Dakota County county-wide view, which covers Mendota Heights. If a serving utility does name Mendota Heights during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
Around Mendota Heights: the closest other places we track are West St. Paul, about 3 miles to the northeast; Eagan, about 5 miles to the south; South St. Paul, about 5 miles to the east; and St. Paul, about 5 miles to the north. Also nearby: Inver Grove Heights (6 mi SE), Richfield (7 mi W), Minneapolis (8 mi NW), Maplewood (9 mi NE), Bloomington (9 mi W), Roseville (9 mi N), Apple Valley (10 mi S) and Rosemount (10 mi S).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Little Canada (10 mi); northeast toward Oakdale (11 mi); east toward Woodbury (11 mi); southeast toward Cottage Grove (11 mi); south toward Lakeville (15 mi); southwest toward Burnsville (11 mi); west toward Edina (11 mi); and northwest toward St. Louis Park (12 mi).
Who serves Mendota Heights?
We track live outage data from Dakota Electric Association ↗, Xcel Energy, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative and Otter Tail Power ↗ in Dakota County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. Goodhue County Cooperative Electric Association also serves parts of Dakota County — we don't yet read its own live outage map. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.
Mendota Heights's last tracked outage began Sep 23, peaked at 72 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 2 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.
- Sep 23 — 72 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Aug 24 — 73 customers out, restored in an hour
County context: across all of Dakota County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 2.5 hr. The full record for Dakota County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Mendota Heights, MN?
It depends on the cause and how many crews are working; the live status at the top of this page shows the current outlook. For context from Mendota Heights's own record: across the 2 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
