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2017 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 154K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1506th 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 Wright 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 | June 11, 2017 08:15 | June 16, 2017 16:45 | 5d 8h | 13,803 | 94K |
| 2 | July 19, 2017 13:30 | July 19, 2017 22:00 | 8h 30m | 4,117 | 3,286 |
| 3 | August 19, 2017 03:45 | August 19, 2017 15:00 | 11h 15m | 4,073 | 11K |
| 4 | August 17, 2017 10:30 | August 17, 2017 11:45 | 1h 15m | 3,151 | 3,637 |
| 5 | December 30, 2017 06:15 | December 30, 2017 14:45 | 8h 30m | 2,511 | 5,598 |
| 6 | April 25, 2017 23:30 | April 26, 2017 01:30 | 2h | 2,283 | 573 |
| 7 | August 4, 2017 13:45 | August 4, 2017 22:00 | 8h 15m | 1,313 | 1,650 |
| 8 | April 10, 2017 00:00 | April 10, 2017 03:45 | 3h 45m | 1,278 | 677 |
| 9 | July 21, 2017 13:00 | July 21, 2017 18:15 | 5h 15m | 875 | 661 |
| 10 | July 10, 2017 03:15 | July 10, 2017 08:30 | 5h 15m | 873 | 3,784 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 42 reached 100+ customers, 8 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2017 | 82 min | 0.58 | 36 min | 0.45 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 2.24 | 57 min | 1.64 |
| City of Elk River | 2017 | 32 min | 0.31 | 32 min | 0.31 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/wright-county