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2018 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,388 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2560th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wadena County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 21, 2018 19:45 | December 21, 2018 20:30 | 45m | 465 | 117 |
| 2 | October 16, 2018 15:00 | October 16, 2018 16:15 | 1h 15m | 304 | 155 |
| 3 | May 24, 2018 11:45 | May 24, 2018 12:45 | 1h | 302 | 159 |
| 4 | September 11, 2018 13:15 | September 11, 2018 17:15 | 4h | 299 | 103 |
| 5 | January 18, 2018 18:45 | January 18, 2018 20:00 | 1h 15m | 226 | 282 |
| 6 | December 6, 2018 13:30 | December 6, 2018 15:00 | 1h 30m | 226 | 335 |
| 7 | June 11, 2018 15:45 | June 11, 2018 17:15 | 1h 30m | 223 | 335 |
| 8 | October 30, 2018 20:15 | October 30, 2018 22:45 | 2h 30m | 164 | 239 |
| 9 | June 17, 2018 21:00 | June 18, 2018 00:00 | 3h | 106 | 186 |
| 10 | September 1, 2018 03:15 | September 1, 2018 05:00 | 1h 45m | 100 | 175 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 11 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 2018, 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. | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.49 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 2.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 |
| City of Wadena - (MN) | 2018 | 2 min | 0.07 | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/minnesota/wadena-county