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2017 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 31K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1208th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wadena County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 31, 2017 13:15 | March 31, 2017 17:45 | 4h 30m | 1,294 | 4,866 |
| 2 | May 19, 2017 19:30 | May 19, 2017 20:30 | 1h | 1,109 | 832 |
| 3 | November 6, 2017 15:15 | November 6, 2017 17:45 | 2h 30m | 1,085 | 2,713 |
| 4 | November 17, 2017 12:30 | November 17, 2017 13:30 | 1h | 1,085 | 1,085 |
| 5 | June 26, 2017 13:15 | June 26, 2017 17:30 | 4h 15m | 737 | 1,868 |
| 6 | March 7, 2017 22:15 | March 8, 2017 08:00 | 9h 45m | 735 | 1,524 |
| 7 | March 26, 2017 17:00 | March 26, 2017 18:00 | 1h | 725 | 546 |
| 8 | November 8, 2017 18:00 | November 16, 2017 21:45 | 8d 3h | 524 | 11K |
| 9 | November 6, 2017 19:30 | November 6, 2017 20:45 | 1h 15m | 474 | 593 |
| 10 | May 20, 2017 13:45 | May 20, 2017 15:15 | 1h 30m | 234 | 300 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 19 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 2017, 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. | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.24 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 2.08 | 2.0 hrs | 1.19 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2017 | 65 min | 1.11 | 65 min | 1.11 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.85 | 2.3 hrs | 1.85 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/minnesota/wadena-county