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

Power outage history

Todd County Minnesota

2.8hours

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

27th most of 54 in Minnesota 58% below the national median

Worst outage on record Jul 12, 2015 11% of customers out · 90% back in 48 min
Hours without power, average customer per year 2.8h / yr State average 2.9 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.0 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 7.6days Jul 12, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 40% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 7.4 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 13,003 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 Todd'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

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.4 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Todd, hours without power per customer

ToddUS median countyMinnesota average
0 5 10 15 20 14 ’15 16 ’16 3.6 ’17 4.0 ’18 1.3 ’19 1.0 ’20 2.4 ’21 7.4 ’22 1.8 ’23 2.3 ’24 2.0 ’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
Jul 12, 2015 Thunderstorms 1,446 11% 7.6 d 48 min 125k
Jul 21, 2016 No storm report 4,804 37% 2.6 d 12 h 88k
May 12, 2022 Tornadoes 2,539 20% 35 h 34 h 50k
Aug 4, 2016 Thunderstorms 1,431 11% 32 h 29 h 28k
Jun 19, 2016 No storm report 1,770 14% 20 h 16 h 15k
May 30, 2022 Tornadoes 1,984 15% 12 h 11 h 13k
Aug 18, 2015 No storm report 1,611 12% 16 h 13 h 13k
Apr 19, 2015 No storm report 2,470 19% 9.8 h 10 h 12k
Nov 18, 2016 Winter storm 918 7% 27 h 23 h 11k
Jun 8, 2016 No storm report 2,413 19% 5.0 h 5.0 h 11k
Jun 30, 2018 Thunderstorms 967 7% 19 h 15 h 9.1k
Aug 3, 2024 Thunderstorms 801 6% 12 h 12 h 7.8k

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 +16h

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

  • No storm on record 60%
  • Tornadoes 27%
  • Thunderstorms 9.9%
  • Winter storm 3.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Todd

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
Todd-Wadena Electric Coop MN 73 66 0.83 11.0 128k
ALLETE, Inc. Investor Owned 143 102 1.23 15.9 127k
Otter Tail Power Co Investor Owned 557 136 1.74 11.3 50k
Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp Cooperative 130 62 0.93 14.3 45k
Lake Region Electric Cooperative Cooperative 227 121 1.55 13.6 27k
Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn Cooperative 107 97 0.96 14.1 26k
Runestone Electric Assn Cooperative 135 116 1.57 14.8 14k
City of Staples MN – – – 13.1 8.1k

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 13,003 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 →