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

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

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Elsewhere in Minnesota: 257 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 10:31 PM CDT.

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Who serves Polk County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Otter Tail Power ↗, Wild Rice Electric Cooperative and Xcel Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Red Lake Electric Cooperative, Red River Valley Cooperative Power Association, Clearwater-Polk Electric Cooperative and 4 others 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 — Polk County, MN

Last significant outage: Sep 3, 2026 — peaked at 1,330 customers, restored in ~8.7 hr (wind/storm).

Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 15, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Polk County, MN

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 71 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is shorter than the Minnesota norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.7 hr.

Largest on record: ~4,470 customers out in April 2020, restored after about 4 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.

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 Polk County include East Grand Forks, Crookston, Fosston, Fertile, McIntosh, Erskine, Climax and Winger. 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 Polk County, MN?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Polk include Otter Tail Power, Wild Rice Electric Cooperative, Red Lake 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.

Nearby counties & areas

Red Lake County · Pennington County · Norman County · Marshall County · Mahnomen County · Clearwater County · Clay County · Becker County

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