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2019 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,599 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2703rd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wadena County, 2019
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 10, 2019 13:45 | March 10, 2019 15:45 | 2h | 883 | 1,395 |
| 2 | August 1, 2019 14:15 | August 1, 2019 17:15 | 3h | 539 | 1,164 |
| 3 | January 7, 2019 13:15 | January 7, 2019 14:15 | 1h | 300 | 225 |
| 4 | September 16, 2019 15:15 | September 16, 2019 15:30 | 15m | 166 | 42 |
| 5 | August 26, 2019 15:30 | August 26, 2019 17:30 | 2h | 62 | 115 |
| 6 | December 29, 2019 19:30 | December 30, 2019 01:00 | 5h 30m | 52 | 195 |
| 7 | January 16, 2019 18:00 | January 16, 2019 19:00 | 1h | 51 | 51 |
| 8 | January 17, 2019 19:30 | January 17, 2019 20:00 | 30m | 51 | 26 |
| 9 | February 4, 2019 03:30 | February 4, 2019 05:45 | 2h 15m | 43 | 69 |
| 10 | March 25, 2019 06:30 | March 25, 2019 09:30 | 3h | 29 | 87 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 4 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 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/minnesota/wadena-county