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2020 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 426 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 77th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2960th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wadena County, 2020
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 23, 2020 22:00 | March 24, 2020 02:30 | 4h 30m | 715 | 219 |
| 2 | October 4, 2020 15:15 | October 4, 2020 16:15 | 1h | 58 | 40 |
| 3 | June 2, 2020 19:15 | June 2, 2020 19:30 | 15m | 30 | 8 |
| 4 | September 27, 2020 22:00 | September 28, 2020 00:15 | 2h 15m | 21 | 43 |
| 5 | February 25, 2020 19:30 | February 25, 2020 21:45 | 2h 15m | 17 | 12 |
| 6 | April 19, 2020 05:00 | April 19, 2020 05:15 | 15m | 10 | 3 |
| 7 | July 1, 2020 12:45 | July 1, 2020 13:30 | 45m | 9 | 7 |
| 8 | February 21, 2020 14:30 | February 21, 2020 15:30 | 1h | 6 | 6 |
| 9 | May 11, 2020 16:00 | May 11, 2020 17:15 | 1h 15m | 5 | 6 |
| 10 | March 12, 2020 14:45 | March 12, 2020 15:15 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 1 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 2020, 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. | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.42 | 2.0 hrs | 1.22 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2020 | 6.5 hrs | 2.71 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 2.23 | 1.9 hrs | 1.59 |
| 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 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/minnesota/wadena-county