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

Power outage history

Goodhue County Minnesota

4.3hours

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

12th most of 54 in Minnesota 35% below the national median

Worst outage on record Sep 21, 2018 14% of customers out · 90% back in 2.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.3h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 3.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 3.0days Sep 20, 2018, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 64% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 9.3 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 13,457 ORNL customer model · 8 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 Goodhue's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.3 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Goodhue, hours without power per customer

GoodhueUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 1.5 ’15 8.1 ’16 1.7 ’17 9.3 ’18 3.6 ’19 5.9 ’20 3.3 ’21 1.2 ’22 3.6 ’23 2.9 ’24 4.3 ’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
Sep 20, 2018 Tornadoes 1,840 14% 3.0 d 2.1 d 76k
Jul 5, 2016 Thunderstorms 4,896 36% 42 h 37 h 56k
Aug 8, 2020 Thunderstorms 4,897 36% 25 h 13 h 49k
Jul 28, 2025 Thunderstorms 6,448 48% 18 h 5.8 h 23k
Jun 10, 2016 Thunderstorms 2,551 19% 26 h 25 h 22k
Dec 15, 2021 Tornadoes 1,483 11% 24 h 15 h 19k
Sep 24, 2019 Thunderstorms 2,551 19% 9.0 h 7.8 h 16k
Mar 29, 2018 No storm report 6,751 50% 2.8 h 2.2 h 14k
Jun 21, 2024 Thunderstorms 1,761 13% 10 h 5.2 h 9.5k
Apr 1, 2023 Winter storm 2,301 17% 13 h 12 min 9.1k
Jul 28, 2016 No storm report 3,841 29% 3.8 h 1.0 h 7.6k
Sep 11, 2016 No storm report 2,022 15% 3.2 h 3.2 h 6.6k

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 +4h 90% by +8h

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 Goodhue from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • No storm on record 36%
  • Thunderstorms 33%
  • Tornadoes 28%
  • Winter storm 4.0%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Goodhue

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
Dakota Electric Association Cooperative 29 21 0.35 15.6 109k
Goodhue County Coop Elec Assn MN 111 28 1.08 12.7 89k
City of Lake City MN – – – 12.3 21k
Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric Cooperative 90 56 0.74 16.5 11k
Kenyon Municipal Utilities MN – – – 13.4 6.8k

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 13,457 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 →