When will the power be back in Lake County, MN?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Lake County, MN right now.

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Elsewhere in Minnesota: 250 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 3:45 PM CDT.

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Who serves Lake County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include ALLETE / Minnesota Power ↗ and Lake Country Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Cooperative L&P Association Lake County, Arrowhead Electric Cooperative and City of Two Harbors 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.

Outage history — Lake County, MN

Last significant outage: Sep 15, 2026 — peaked at 606 customers, restored in ~1 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 9 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.5 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 13, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Lake County, MN

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 76 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~2.9 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

Largest on record: ~2,787 customers out in April 2019, restored after about 7.2 days. The busiest year on record here was 2018.

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 covered

Communities in Lake County include Two Harbors, Silver Bay, Beaver Bay, Crystal Bay, Fall Lake, Finland, Knife River and Lake No. 1. 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 Lake County, MN?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lake include ALLETE / Minnesota Power, Lake Country Power, Cooperative L&P Association Lake County 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.

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