Roseau County Minnesota

The outage record here is too thin for a reliable yearly average. Raw events are listed below.

Worst outage on record Dec 11, 2023 6% of customers out · 90% back in 2.2 hours

Hours without power, average customer per year –h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year – Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 29hours May 8, 2022, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 45% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year –

Electricity customers 7,663 ORNL customer model · 0 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 Roseau'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

Roseau, hours without power per customer

RoseauUS median countyMinnesota average

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 8, 2022	Windstorm	146	2%	29 h	–	4.3k
Jul 24, 2025	No storm report	257	3%	7.5 h	–	1.9k
Jul 13, 2020	No storm report	137	2%	7.8 h	–	1.0k
Dec 11, 2023	No storm report	431	6%	2.2 h	2.2 h	970
Jul 26, 2022	No storm report	146	2%	5.8 h	–	840
Jul 16, 2025	No storm report	258	3%	1.5 h	–	387

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

No storm on record 55%
Windstorm 45%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Roseau

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
Roseau Electric Coop, Inc	MN	83	83	0.58	14.2	104k
North Star Electric Coop, Inc	MN	111	92	1.23	14.6	73k
Otter Tail Power Co	Investor Owned	557	136	1.74	11.3	50k
City of Roseau	MN	–	–	–	–	13k
City of Warroad	MN	7	–	0.11	12.3	7.3k

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.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Beltrami 6.9 h
Roseau (this county) – h

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 7,663 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 →