Power outage history
Kandiyohi County Minnesota
2.1hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
34th most of 54 in Minnesota 67% 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 Kandiyohi's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 5.5 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Kandiyohi, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,552 | 18% | 26 h | 16 h | 77k |
| Jul 25, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 6,530 | 32% | 19 h | 7.0 h | 65k |
| Jun 11, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 1,139 | 6% | 2.3 d | 2.0 d | 40k |
| Sep 2, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 2,534 | 13% | 17 h | 17 h | 39k |
| Jul 27, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 3,282 | 16% | 22 h | 20 h | 33k |
| May 30, 2022 | No storm report | 1,507 | 7% | 12 h | 12 h | 11k |
| Dec 13, 2022 | No storm report | 2,480 | 12% | 3.2 h | 9.8 h | 8.1k |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 1,138 | 6% | 11 h | 8.0 h | 7.2k |
| Jul 13, 2018 | No storm report | 2,669 | 13% | 3.2 h | 4.0 h | 5.4k |
| Feb 6, 2016 | No storm report | 793 | 4% | 7.5 h | – | 4.6k |
| Jul 16, 2016 | No storm report | 794 | 4% | 5.2 h | – | 3.9k |
| Dec 15, 2021 | Windstorm | 823 | 4% | 5.0 h | – | 3.4k |
| Mar 30, 2025 | Winter storm | 2,298 | 11% | 1.8 h | 12 min | 3.3k |
| Jul 13, 2015 | No storm report | 468 | 2% | 7.0 h | – | 2.9k |
| Aug 11, 2024 | No storm report | 479 | 2% | 5.5 h | – | 2.6k |
| May 14, 2019 | No storm report | 791 | 4% | 3.2 h | – | 2.6k |
| Aug 3, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 630 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 2.2k |
| Jun 5, 2017 | No storm report | 786 | 4% | 2.5 h | – | 2.0k |
| Aug 4, 2018 | No storm report | 323 | 2% | 6.2 h | – | 1.9k |
| Nov 14, 2023 | No storm report | 480 | 2% | 4.0 h | – | 1.9k |
| Aug 26, 2021 | No storm report | 753 | 4% | 2.5 h | – | 1.9k |
| Oct 12, 2024 | No storm report | 622 | 3% | 3.0 h | – | 1.9k |
| Jul 6, 2021 | No storm report | 479 | 2% | 5.2 h | – | 1.9k |
| Jun 6, 2017 | No storm report | 787 | 4% | 3.0 h | – | 1.8k |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 750 | 4% | 4.2 h | – | 1.8k |
| Jul 9, 2015 | No storm report | 703 | 3% | 2.5 h | – | 1.7k |
| Mar 16, 2025 | No storm report | 814 | 4% | 2.0 h | – | 1.6k |
| Feb 8, 2019 | Winter storm | 1,075 | 5% | 4.5 h | 48 min | 1.6k |
| Jun 2, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,676 | 8% | 1.5 h | 1.5 h | 1.5k |
| Aug 10, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 496 | 2% | 4.5 h | – | 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.
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 Kandiyohi from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 76%
- No storm on record 20%
- Winter storm 2.5%
- Windstorm 1.1%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Kandiyohi
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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | MN | 161 | 161 | 1.67 | 13.1 | 113k |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | MN | 138 | 62 | 2.06 | 13.1 | 109k |
| Otter Tail Power Co | Investor Owned | 557 | 136 | 1.74 | 11.3 | 50k |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | MN | 301 | 91 | 2.28 | 12.4 | 37k |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | Cooperative | 107 | 97 | 0.96 | 14.1 | 26k |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | Cooperative | 151 | 128 | 1.37 | 14.0 | 8.6k |
| Willmar Municipal Utilities (MN) | Municipal | 16 | 40 | 0.39 | 13.8 | 8.5k |
| Agralite Electric Coop | Cooperative | 255 | 73 | 1.99 | 13.7 | 4.3k |
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.
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 20,235 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 →