When will the power be back in West St. Paul, MN?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
West St. Paul is a city of about 21,920 residents in Dakota County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for West St. Paul by name, so this page reports the Dakota County county-wide view, which covers West St. Paul. If a serving utility does name West St. Paul during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
Around West St. Paul: the closest other places we track are South St. Paul, about 2 miles to the southeast; Mendota Heights, about 3 miles to the southwest; St. Paul, about 3 miles to the north; and Inver Grove Heights, about 5 miles to the south. Also nearby: Maplewood (6 mi NE), Eagan (7 mi SW), Woodbury (8 mi E), Oakdale (8 mi NE), Little Canada (8 mi N), Roseville (9 mi NW), North St. Paul (9 mi NE) and Cottage Grove (10 mi SE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Vadnais Heights (11 mi); northeast toward Lake Elmo (11 mi); east toward Hudson, WI (18 mi); southeast toward Hastings (16 mi); south toward Rosemount (11 mi); southwest toward Apple Valley (12 mi); west toward Richfield (10 mi); and northwest toward Minneapolis (10 mi).
Who serves West St. Paul?
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.
West St. Paul's last tracked outage began Sep 30, peaked at 27 customers out, and was restored in 3 hours. Across the 4 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.
- Sep 30 — 27 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Sep 20 — 41 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Aug 27 — 25 customers out, restored in 30 minutes
- Aug 24 — 41 customers out, restored in 2 hours
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 West St. Paul, 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 West St. Paul's own record: across the 4 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours — the outage-history panel above lists them.
