Power Outages in Chippewa County, MN
No live outage feed is available for Chippewa County, MN yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.3 hours.
Chippewa County, MN is served by local tracked utilities.
Chippewa County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Chippewa County right now.
Chippewa County has been under 18 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 17, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×9
- Extreme Heat Warning ×5
- Air Quality Alert ×4
Hardest-hit cities in Chippewa County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Chippewa County went about 3.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 2,636 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 2,636 customers out) · decade average 2.0 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 160 | 152 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 79 | 2,613 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 2 | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 155 | 785 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 121 | 2,475 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 120 | 1,050 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 117 | 384 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 155 | 2,636 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 130 | 787 | 0.8 |
| 2024 | 162 | 954 | 1.1 |
| 2025 | 180 | 1,643 | 3.3 |
Relatively Moderate high winds exposure · 2.0 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Chippewa County: FAQ
- How often does Chippewa County, MN lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Chippewa County, MN logged 180 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Chippewa County, MN?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 2,636 customers without power, beginning May 12, 2022 and lasting about 1d 4h.
- Is there a power outage in Chippewa County, MN right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Chippewa County, MN. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Chippewa County.
56222, 56260, 56262, 56265, 56295
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/27023 and /api/v1/counties/27023/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Minnesota customers).