Power Outages in Houston County, MN
No live outage feed is available for Houston County, MN yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 0.3 hours.
Houston County, MN is served by local tracked utilities.
Houston 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 Houston County right now.
Houston County has been under 8 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Flood Advisory on July 18, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×4
- Special Weather Statement ×2
- Air Quality Alert ×1
- Flood Advisory ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Houston County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Houston County went about 0.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 2,887 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 2,871 customers out) · decade average 1.1 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | 197 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 50 | 620 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 47 | 59 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 67 | 1,436 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 58 | 2,865 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 87 | 2,871 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 67 | 2,871 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 58 | 2,887 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 58 | 2,816 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 67 | 1,568 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 47 | 79 | 0.3 |
Relatively Low high winds exposure · 1.1 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Houston County: FAQ
- How often does Houston County, MN lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Houston County, MN logged 47 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 0.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Houston County, MN?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 2,887 customers without power, beginning June 15, 2022 and lasting about 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Houston County, MN right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Houston County, MN. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Houston County.
55919, 55921, 55931, 55941, 55943, 55947, 55974
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/27055 and /api/v1/counties/27055/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Minnesota customers).