When will the power be back in Big Lake, MN?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Big Lake is a city of about 12,855 residents in Sherburne County.
None of the utility outage maps we follow has yet listed an outage for Big Lake by name, so this page reports the Sherburne County county-wide view, which covers Big Lake. If a serving utility does name Big Lake during an outage, the city's own numbers appear here automatically.
ZIP codes in Big Lake:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Big Lake: the closest other places we track are Andover, about 21 miles to the east; Maple Grove, about 21 miles to the southeast; Coon Rapids, about 24 miles to the southeast; and Blaine, about 29 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Mounds View (31 mi SE), Shoreview (35 mi SE), Roseville (36 mi SE), Vadnais Heights (38 mi SE), North Branch (40 mi E), White Bear Lake (40 mi SE), St. Paul (41 mi SE) and Maplewood (43 mi SE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: east toward Menomonie, WI (95 mi); southeast toward West St. Paul (44 mi); south toward Albert Lea (118 mi); southwest toward Mitchell, SD (239 mi); and northwest toward Fargo, ND (181 mi).
Who serves Big Lake?
We track live outage data from Connexus Energy ↗, Xcel Energy, East Central Energy and Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric ↗ in Sherburne County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Elk River and Princeton Public Utilities Commission also serve parts of Sherburne County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. For the parent company's combined picture, see Xcel Energy outages across every state it serves.
Big Lake's last tracked outage began Sep 15, peaked at 54 customers out, and was restored in an hour. Across the 3 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran an hour.
- Sep 15 — 54 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 8 — 752 customers out, restored in 3 hours
- Aug 19 — 46 customers out, restored in an hour
County context: across all of Sherburne County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 2.3 hr. The full record for Sherburne County
Common questions
When will my power be back on in Big Lake, 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 Big Lake's own record: across the 3 outages this site has tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran an hour — the outage-history panel above lists them.
How do I check the power outage status in Big Lake, MN?
To check your own street, search a Big Lake ZIP code — 55309 — and the map opens on that area.
