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2020 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 86K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2517th 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 Wright 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 | May 14, 2020 19:15 | May 15, 2020 02:00 | 6h 45m | 7,423 | 5,089 |
| 2 | May 6, 2020 13:30 | May 6, 2020 16:00 | 2h 30m | 6,438 | 2,774 |
| 3 | June 28, 2020 13:00 | June 29, 2020 06:15 | 17h 15m | 4,254 | 5,792 |
| 4 | March 5, 2020 17:00 | March 5, 2020 19:30 | 2h 30m | 3,256 | 3,036 |
| 5 | September 24, 2020 09:45 | September 24, 2020 14:30 | 4h 45m | 3,060 | 1,961 |
| 6 | December 23, 2020 17:30 | December 24, 2020 05:30 | 12h | 2,718 | 4,706 |
| 7 | August 24, 2020 09:30 | August 25, 2020 02:30 | 17h | 1,957 | 4,668 |
| 8 | October 17, 2020 17:15 | October 17, 2020 19:30 | 2h 15m | 1,867 | 3,702 |
| 9 | August 26, 2020 16:15 | August 27, 2020 04:30 | 12h 15m | 1,788 | 1,688 |
| 10 | June 3, 2020 17:15 | June 4, 2020 00:00 | 6h 45m | 1,323 | 2,364 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 52 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2020 | 29 min | 0.37 | 29 min | 0.37 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| City of Elk River | 2020 | 16 min | 0.16 | 16 min | 0.16 |
| 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 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; 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, 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/wright-county