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2015 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1866th 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 Wright 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 | August 9, 2015 09:15 | August 10, 2015 00:45 | 15h 30m | 4,684 | 7,500 |
| 2 | May 29, 2015 23:15 | May 30, 2015 05:30 | 6h 15m | 2,406 | 610 |
| 3 | September 14, 2015 13:45 | September 14, 2015 14:30 | 45m | 2,273 | 1,137 |
| 4 | October 12, 2015 14:00 | October 12, 2015 23:00 | 9h | 1,582 | 723 |
| 5 | July 13, 2015 03:00 | July 13, 2015 23:15 | 20h 15m | 1,321 | 3,068 |
| 6 | December 15, 2015 20:00 | December 15, 2015 20:15 | 15m | 1,236 | 309 |
| 7 | March 12, 2015 21:45 | March 13, 2015 00:30 | 2h 45m | 1,214 | 1,549 |
| 8 | September 8, 2015 12:00 | September 8, 2015 14:30 | 2h 30m | 1,211 | 305 |
| 9 | August 6, 2015 16:00 | August 6, 2015 18:15 | 2h 15m | 1,012 | 1,990 |
| 10 | September 23, 2015 10:30 | September 23, 2015 11:30 | 1h | 959 | 524 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 43 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Wright 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.88 | 82 min | 0.81 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.83 | 2.1 hrs | 0.83 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2015 | 57 min | 0.57 | 44 min | 0.52 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2015 | 67 min | 0.85 | 67 min | 0.85 |
| City of Elk River | 2015 | 24 min | 0.30 | 24 min | 0.30 |
| City of Buffalo - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Delano Municipal Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 63,435 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. Wright County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wright 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/wright-county