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2019 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 101K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 71 Minnesota counties and 2243rd 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 Wright 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 | January 26, 2019 08:15 | January 26, 2019 18:45 | 10h 30m | 4,075 | 18K |
| 2 | March 16, 2019 15:15 | March 16, 2019 18:30 | 3h 15m | 3,271 | 2,878 |
| 3 | March 1, 2019 03:00 | March 1, 2019 07:15 | 4h 15m | 3,238 | 2,906 |
| 4 | June 4, 2019 19:30 | June 4, 2019 22:15 | 2h 45m | 2,654 | 708 |
| 5 | December 8, 2019 06:00 | December 8, 2019 10:15 | 4h 15m | 1,784 | 7,582 |
| 6 | September 30, 2019 03:15 | September 30, 2019 21:45 | 18h 30m | 1,759 | 2,097 |
| 7 | September 2, 2019 18:30 | September 4, 2019 03:00 | 1d 8h | 1,312 | 13K |
| 8 | July 15, 2019 21:15 | July 16, 2019 21:45 | 1d | 1,175 | 4,426 |
| 9 | October 22, 2019 03:00 | October 22, 2019 04:15 | 1h 15m | 998 | 998 |
| 10 | April 27, 2019 06:30 | April 27, 2019 08:00 | 1h 30m | 988 | 1,482 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 38 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2019; 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, 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/wright-county