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

Power outage history

Kanabec County Minnesota

2.6hours

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

29th most of 54 in Minnesota 60% below the national median

Worst outage on record Oct 31, 2024 23% of customers out · 90% back in 15 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.6h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.3 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 38hours Dec 15, 2022, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 34% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2024 4.7 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 7,031 ORNL customer model · 6 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 Kanabec'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

2024 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Kanabec, hours without power per customer

KanabecUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’19 1.7 ’20 1.1 ’21 4.1 ’22 2.2 ’23 4.7 ’24 1.8 ’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
Oct 31, 2024 Winter storm 1,607 23% 24 h 15 h 17k
Dec 15, 2022 No storm report 2,280 32% 38 h 11 h 15k
Aug 14, 2020 Thunderstorms 569 8% 13 h 13 h 3.8k
Aug 11, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,128 16% 6.2 h 4.0 h 3.4k
Nov 25, 2025 Winter storm 397 6% 18 h 14 h 2.6k
May 30, 2022 No storm report 1,004 14% 3.5 h 2.0 h 2.4k
Jun 13, 2024 No storm report 1,122 16% 3.5 h 2.5 h 2.3k
Jun 13, 2021 No storm report 2,607 37% 1.2 h 30 min 2.0k
May 16, 2025 No storm report 1,077 15% 3.8 h 1.2 h 2.0k
May 31, 2022 No storm report 228 3% 11 h – 1.6k
Feb 28, 2025 No storm report 1,042 15% 1.5 h 1.2 h 1.5k
Sep 23, 2023 No storm report 704 10% 2.2 h 12 min 1.5k

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 +4h

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

  • No storm on record 66%
  • Winter storm 24%
  • Thunderstorms 9.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Kanabec

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
East Central Energy Cooperative 97 82 1.03 17.6 56k
City of Mora MN – – – 11.2 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

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 7,031 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 →