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

Power outage history

Watonwan County Minnesota

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

Worst outage on record Jun 22, 2015 11% of customers out · 90% back in 4.8 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% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 11hours Jan 4, 2015, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 13% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year –
Electricity customers 4,294 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 Watonwan's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

Watonwan, hours without power per customer

WatonwanUS median countyMinnesota average
0 2 4 6 8 ’15 ’16 ’17 ’18 ’19 ’20 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 ’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
Jun 22, 2015 Windstorm 462 11% 8.2 h 4.8 h 2.8k
Sep 14, 2024 No storm report 277 6% 7.2 h 7.2 h 2.0k
Jan 4, 2015 No storm report 172 4% 11 h – 1.4k
Jan 24, 2015 No storm report 164 4% 5.0 h – 820
Apr 11, 2019 Winter storm 291 7% 1.8 h 1.8 h 508
Feb 24, 2015 No storm report 241 6% 3.0 h 1.2 h 508
Oct 15, 2024 No storm report 276 6% 2.0 h 7.2 h 502
Apr 2, 2020 No storm report 280 7% 1.5 h 1.5 h 420
Mar 29, 2015 No storm report 215 5% 2.0 h 5.2 h 378
Mar 15, 2016 No storm report 77 2% 3.8 h – 289
Jul 27, 2019 No storm report 284 7% 1.0 h 1.0 h 284
Mar 30, 2016 No storm report 77 2% 2.2 h – 173

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.

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

  • No storm on record 87%
  • Winter storm 13%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Watonwan

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
Brown County Rural Elec Assn MN 121 35 1.01 11.8 68k
City of St James MN – – – 9.5 18k
City of Madelia MN – – – – 7.4k
Federated Rural Electric Assn Cooperative 116 116 1.22 12.8 5.7k
South Central Electric Assn Cooperative 125 91 1.15 15.5 4.7k

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 4,294 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 →