When will the power be back in Hennepin County, MN?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Minnesota
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customers reported out in Hennepin County, MN
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Xcel Energy): Oct 3, 11:30 PM CDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~11 hr start to finish (38 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 10:37 PM CDT.
19county-wide trend of customers without power · last 16 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Plymouth — 6 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 3, 1:00 PM CDT — this time has passed
Bloomington — 2 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 3, 11:30 PM CDT
Crystal — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 3, 8:45 PM CDT — this time has passed
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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Xcel Energy, Connexus Energy ↗, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative, Otter Tail Power ↗ and 1 more, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Elk River and City of Anoka also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Hennepin County, MN
Last significant outage: Sep 30, 2026 — peaked at 256 customers, restored in ~30.2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 10.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 11, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Hennepin County, MN
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
2,541 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 53 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~7.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Minnesota norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.7 hr.
Largest on record: ~84,596 customers out in June 2023, restored after about 40.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities in Hennepin County include Minneapolis, Bloomington, Brooklyn Park, Plymouth, Maple Grove, Eden Prairie, Edina and Minnetonka. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Hennepin County, MN?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Hennepin include Xcel Energy, Connexus Energy, Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
