Power Outages in Yellow Medicine County, MN
No live outage feed is available for Yellow Medicine County, MN yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.5 hours.
Yellow Medicine County, MN is served by local tracked utilities.
Yellow Medicine 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 Yellow Medicine County right now.
Yellow Medicine County has been under 14 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 17, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×9
- Extreme Heat Warning ×5
Hardest-hit cities in Yellow Medicine County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Yellow Medicine County went about 3.5 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 1,654 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 726 customers out) · decade average 4.6 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | 696 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 36 | 699 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 54 | 1,077 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 57 | 575 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 71 | 972 | 7.4 |
| 2020 | 66 | 1,654 | 8.1 |
| 2021 | 64 | 510 | 1.4 |
| 2022 | 100 | 726 | 17.7 |
| 2023 | 79 | 174 | 0.8 |
| 2024 | 118 | 699 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 139 | 1,056 | 3.5 |
Relatively Moderate winter weather exposure · 4.6 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Yellow Medicine County: FAQ
- How often does Yellow Medicine County, MN lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Yellow Medicine County, MN logged 139 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.5 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Yellow Medicine County, MN?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 1,654 customers without power, beginning August 8, 2020 and lasting about 1d 8h.
- Is there a power outage in Yellow Medicine County, MN right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Yellow Medicine County, MN. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Yellow Medicine County.
56220, 56223, 56237, 56241, 56245, 56291, 56297
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/27173 and /api/v1/counties/27173/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Minnesota customers).