Power outage history
Wilkin County Minnesota
2.3hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
31st most of 54 in Minnesota 65% 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 Wilkin's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2025 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.0 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Wilkin, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 2025 | Winter storm | 274 | 9% | 25 h | 25 h | 4.3k |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Winter storm | 663 | 21% | 12 h | 2.2 h | 3.4k |
| Jun 21, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 314 | 10% | 18 h | 12 h | 2.9k |
| Nov 18, 2020 | No storm report | 189 | 6% | 13 h | 13 h | 2.5k |
| Jul 9, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 376 | 12% | 11 h | 3.5 h | 1.9k |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 221 | 7% | 21 h | 17 h | 1.4k |
| Oct 26, 2017 | Windstorm | 582 | 19% | 3.8 h | 2.0 h | 1.3k |
| Dec 3, 2023 | No storm report | 534 | 17% | 2.5 h | 2.0 h | 1.2k |
| Jul 13, 2024 | No storm report | 173 | 6% | 6.5 h | 6.5 h | 1.1k |
| Jun 16, 2018 | Thunderstorms | 405 | 13% | 3.0 h | 6.8 h | 1.1k |
| Nov 28, 2023 | No storm report | 379 | 12% | 5.8 h | 5.0 h | 1.1k |
| Aug 22, 2019 | No storm report | 466 | 15% | 2.0 h | 2.0 h | 932 |
| Jun 20, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 91 | 3% | 10 h | – | 910 |
| Jun 9, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 205 | 7% | 6.8 h | 6.2 h | 799 |
| Dec 16, 2021 | No storm report | 109 | 4% | 10 h | – | 771 |
| Jun 3, 2024 | No storm report | 143 | 5% | 11 h | – | 758 |
| Apr 11, 2022 | No storm report | 99 | 3% | 7.2 h | – | 718 |
| May 6, 2025 | No storm report | 149 | 5% | 4.5 h | – | 670 |
| Aug 8, 2018 | No storm report | 178 | 6% | 6.0 h | 15 h | 651 |
| May 30, 2023 | No storm report | 664 | 21% | 1.8 h | 6.0 h | 605 |
| Aug 5, 2019 | No storm report | 401 | 13% | 1.5 h | 2.8 h | 602 |
| Jan 4, 2020 | No storm report | 90 | 3% | 7.5 h | – | 591 |
| Mar 7, 2021 | No storm report | 73 | 2% | 7.2 h | – | 529 |
| May 4, 2016 | No storm report | 115 | 4% | 5.8 h | – | 525 |
| Aug 28, 2020 | No storm report | 258 | 8% | 4.0 h | 1.5 h | 512 |
| Jun 20, 2021 | No storm report | 91 | 3% | 5.5 h | – | 500 |
| Dec 25, 2024 | No storm report | 117 | 4% | 4.0 h | – | 468 |
| Aug 11, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 155 | 5% | 5.5 h | – | 467 |
| Dec 20, 2022 | No storm report | 91 | 3% | 5.0 h | – | 455 |
| Nov 19, 2016 | Winter storm | 388 | 12% | 1.2 h | 1.0 h | 436 |
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 Wilkin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- No storm on record 63%
- Thunderstorms 20%
- Winter storm 17%
- Windstorm 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Wilkin
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 |
| Otter Tail Power Co | Investor Owned | 557 | 136 | 1.74 | 11.3 | 50k |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | MN | – | – | – | 11.6 | 38k |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative | Cooperative | 227 | 121 | 1.55 | 13.6 | 27k |
| City of Breckenridge | MN | – | – | – | 7.9 | 20k |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | Federal | – | – | – | – | – |
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
- Grant 5.0 h
- Otter Tail 4.5 h
- Richland, ND 4.2 h
- Wilkin (this county) 2.3 h
- Clay 0.8 h
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 3,109 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 →