When will the power be back in White Bear Lake, MN?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
White Bear Lake is a city of about 23,479 residents in Ramsey County.
Xcel Energy has reported outages for White Bear Lake by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-07-27) — so when White Bear Lake is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
Around White Bear Lake: the closest other places we track are Vadnais Heights, about 3 miles to the west; North St. Paul, about 4 miles to the south; Little Canada, about 4 miles to the southwest; and Maplewood, about 6 miles to the south. Also nearby: Oakdale (6 mi SE), Shoreview (6 mi W), Lake Elmo (7 mi SE), Hugo (8 mi N), Roseville (8 mi SW), Lino Lakes (8 mi NW), Stillwater (9 mi E) and St. Paul (9 mi SW).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Forest Lake (13 mi); east toward New Richmond, WI (24 mi); southeast toward Hudson, WI (16 mi); south toward West St. Paul (12 mi); southwest toward Mendota Heights (14 mi); west toward New Brighton (9 mi); and northwest toward Blaine (12 mi).
Who serves White Bear Lake?
We track live outage data from Xcel Energy and Connexus Energy ↗ in Ramsey County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of North St. Paul also serves parts of Ramsey 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.
White Bear Lake's last tracked outage began Sep 29, peaked at 37 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.
- Sep 29 — 37 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 24 — 68 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Sep 14 — 298 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 8 — 54 customers out, restored in 2 hours
County context: across all of Ramsey County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 4.5 hr. The full record for Ramsey County
