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2018 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2359th 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 Wright 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 | April 30, 2018 14:15 | April 30, 2018 21:30 | 7h 15m | 5,236 | 4,410 |
| 2 | January 16, 2018 14:45 | January 16, 2018 17:15 | 2h 30m | 1,319 | 2,638 |
| 3 | December 27, 2018 12:45 | December 28, 2018 08:15 | 19h 30m | 1,316 | 2,509 |
| 4 | May 8, 2018 17:00 | May 8, 2018 18:00 | 1h | 1,308 | 1,308 |
| 5 | August 9, 2018 22:00 | August 10, 2018 05:30 | 7h 30m | 1,079 | 2,343 |
| 6 | May 28, 2018 19:15 | May 29, 2018 07:45 | 12h 30m | 1,075 | 1,709 |
| 7 | January 9, 2018 02:45 | January 9, 2018 07:30 | 4h 45m | 1,015 | 2,621 |
| 8 | July 1, 2018 11:45 | July 2, 2018 02:00 | 14h 15m | 875 | 1,410 |
| 9 | May 4, 2018 15:15 | May 5, 2018 04:30 | 13h 15m | 748 | 405 |
| 10 | May 5, 2018 22:45 | May 6, 2018 02:00 | 3h 15m | 743 | 2,289 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 34 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2018 | 47 min | 0.55 | 32 min | 0.39 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.44 | 69 min | 1.32 |
| City of Elk River | 2018 | 10 min | 0.17 | 10 min | 0.17 |
| 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 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; 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, 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/wright-county