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2015 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 11K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1611th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wadena County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 6, 2015 18:15 | July 6, 2015 22:30 | 4h 15m | 1,137 | 725 |
| 2 | October 1, 2015 21:00 | October 1, 2015 22:15 | 1h 15m | 1,130 | 387 |
| 3 | September 9, 2015 18:15 | September 9, 2015 18:30 | 15m | 833 | 208 |
| 4 | July 13, 2015 00:00 | July 13, 2015 18:45 | 18h 45m | 297 | 4,027 |
| 5 | March 17, 2015 14:15 | March 17, 2015 15:15 | 1h | 242 | 242 |
| 6 | June 20, 2015 07:15 | June 20, 2015 07:45 | 30m | 242 | 61 |
| 7 | October 5, 2015 16:45 | October 5, 2015 17:30 | 45m | 240 | 61 |
| 8 | May 26, 2015 18:00 | May 26, 2015 18:45 | 45m | 239 | 179 |
| 9 | February 23, 2015 11:30 | February 23, 2015 15:00 | 3h 30m | 238 | 833 |
| 10 | September 9, 2015 19:15 | September 9, 2015 19:30 | 15m | 225 | 56 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 16 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Wadena County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2015 | 4.9 hrs | 1.33 | 1.7 hrs | 1.17 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.85 | 1.9 hrs | 1.41 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2015 | 6.2 hrs | 1.34 | 34 min | 0.57 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2015 | 4.1 hrs | 2.15 | 1.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| City of Wadena - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,800 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Wadena County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wadena County, MN annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/minnesota/wadena-county