Power Out Map
– 0% of Douglas out 0 customers out in Minnesota

Power outage history

Douglas County Minnesota

1.2hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

82% below the national median

Worst outage on record May 12, 2022 10% of customers out · 90% back in 14 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 1.2h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 19hours May 12, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 61% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2025 2.6 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 23,496 ORNL customer model · 4 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Douglas's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.6 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Douglas, hours without power per customer

DouglasUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 1.4 ’20 ’21 ’22 0.5 ’23 0.3 ’24 2.6 ’25 US 6.6 MN 2.9

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
May 12, 2022 Thunderstorms 2,315 10% 19 h 14 h 22k
Jun 20, 2025 Thunderstorms 8,645 37% 5.0 h 3.8 h 21k
Nov 25, 2025 Winter storm 5,204 22% 6.2 h 3.0 h 9.7k
Mar 29, 2020 No storm report 2,281 10% 4.8 h 4.8 h 5.0k
May 16, 2022 No storm report 391 2% 11 h – 4.1k
Jun 2, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,938 8% 2.8 h 2.8 h 3.1k
Oct 25, 2023 No storm report 620 3% 4.5 h – 2.8k
Oct 20, 2025 No storm report 785 3% 4.0 h – 2.6k
May 30, 2022 Thunderstorms 1,843 8% 4.2 h 4.2 h 2.4k
Dec 24, 2019 No storm report 437 2% 6.0 h – 2.0k
May 22, 2024 No storm report 1,075 5% 2.2 h – 1.7k
Jul 1, 2020 No storm report 297 1% 5.5 h – 1.6k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +6h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Douglas from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Thunderstorms 50%
  • No storm on record 39%
  • Winter storm 10%
  • Tornadoes 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Douglas

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Minnesota territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Northern States Power Co - Minnesota Investor Owned 226 115 1.38 17.1 1.2M
Todd-Wadena Electric Coop MN 73 66 0.83 11.0 128k
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 557 136 1.74 11.3 50k
Lake Region Electric Cooperative Cooperative 227 121 1.55 13.6 27k
Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn Cooperative 107 97 0.96 14.1 26k
Runestone Electric Assn Cooperative 135 116 1.57 14.8 14k
City of Alexandria Municipal 16 9 0.27 12.0 8.9k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Minnesota

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Minnesota counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 23,496 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →