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

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Wright 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 Wright County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric ↗ and Xcel Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Buffalo, City of Elk River, Meeker Cooperative Light & Power Association and 2 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 — Wright County, MN

Last significant outage: Sep 22, 2026 — peaked at 1,329 customers, restored in ~3.2 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 7 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 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Wright County, MN

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 369 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2 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: ~16,996 customers out in July 2016, restored after about 14.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.

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.

Cities we track in Wright County

Buffalo · Monticello · Otsego · St. Michael

Communities in Wright County include Otsego, St. Michael, Buffalo, Monticello, Albertville, Delano, Rockford and Hanover. 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 Wright County, MN?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Wright include Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric, Xcel Energy, City of Buffalo 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

Sherburne County · Carver County · Hennepin County · Meeker County · McLeod County · Anoka County · Benton County · Stearns County

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