Power outage history
Hubbard County Minnesota
1.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
36th most of 54 in Minnesota 72% below the national median
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 Hubbard's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Hubbard, hours without power per customer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 6,882 | 41% | 4.2 d | 3.6 d | 302k |
| Jul 12, 2015 | No storm report | 1,469 | 9% | 4.7 d | 4.4 d | 121k |
| Aug 4, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 1,823 | 11% | 2.3 d | 31 h | 51k |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,580 | 21% | 46 h | 11 h | 51k |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Winter storm | 1,747 | 10% | 28 h | 21 h | 36k |
| Sep 20, 2017 | No storm report | 1,445 | 9% | 18 h | 13 h | 17k |
| Mar 2, 2015 | No storm report | 2,860 | 17% | 4.5 h | 1.8 h | 13k |
| Jul 17, 2017 | No storm report | 1,376 | 8% | 20 h | 17 h | 11k |
| Oct 9, 2021 | Tornadoes | 1,077 | 6% | 8.0 h | 8.0 h | 8.6k |
| Dec 15, 2022 | Winter storm | 976 | 6% | 8.5 h | 2.2 h | 8.3k |
| Dec 31, 2024 | No storm report | 1,588 | 10% | 5.0 h | 4.5 h | 7.6k |
| Mar 16, 2016 | No storm report | 638 | 4% | 10 h | – | 6.5k |
| Apr 19, 2015 | No storm report | 1,894 | 11% | 3.8 h | 3.8 h | 6.3k |
| Jul 9, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,432 | 9% | 8.5 h | 7.5 h | 4.9k |
| Sep 22, 2019 | No storm report | 591 | 4% | 12 h | – | 4.8k |
| Jun 30, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 794 | 5% | 6.8 h | – | 4.5k |
| Nov 10, 2018 | No storm report | 1,317 | 8% | 3.5 h | 1.2 h | 4.2k |
| Mar 5, 2025 | No storm report | 1,184 | 7% | 3.5 h | 9.8 h | 4.1k |
| Sep 8, 2015 | No storm report | 1,656 | 10% | 4.2 h | 3.0 h | 3.7k |
| Sep 16, 2023 | No storm report | 456 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 3.6k |
| Jun 21, 2015 | No storm report | 2,854 | 17% | 1.2 h | 1.2 h | 3.6k |
| Jun 5, 2018 | No storm report | 538 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 3.4k |
| Dec 19, 2022 | No storm report | 1,929 | 12% | 3.2 h | 3.8 h | 3.1k |
| Sep 1, 2016 | No storm report | 1,006 | 6% | 3.0 h | 3.0 h | 3.0k |
| Oct 27, 2017 | No storm report | 451 | 3% | 6.8 h | – | 2.7k |
| Aug 30, 2020 | No storm report | 216 | 1% | 13 h | – | 2.6k |
| Jun 23, 2025 | No storm report | 337 | 2% | 8.5 h | – | 2.5k |
| Dec 22, 2023 | No storm report | 299 | 2% | 7.8 h | – | 2.3k |
| Apr 1, 2024 | No storm report | 639 | 4% | 4.2 h | – | 2.3k |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 1,058 | 6% | 3.2 h | 1.0 h | 2.2k |
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.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Hubbard from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 48%
- Thunderstorms 40%
- Winter storm 5.1%
- Tornadoes 4.9%
- Windstorm 1.4%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Hubbard
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | MN | 73 | 66 | 0.83 | 11.0 | 128k |
| ALLETE, Inc. | Investor Owned | 143 | 102 | 1.23 | 15.9 | 127k |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | MN | 116 | 116 | 0.43 | 13.6 | 63k |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 118 | 96 | 1.31 | 15.5 | 21k |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | Cooperative | 196 | 105 | 1.49 | 13.1 | 11k |
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
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 16,671 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 →