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2021 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 7,153 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2733rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Wadena County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 22, 2021 07:00 | August 22, 2021 07:45 | 45m | 1,315 | 972 |
| 2 | August 26, 2021 18:30 | August 26, 2021 20:45 | 2h 15m | 1,285 | 1,329 |
| 3 | June 19, 2021 13:00 | June 19, 2021 15:45 | 2h 45m | 712 | 1,780 |
| 4 | September 8, 2021 09:30 | September 8, 2021 14:15 | 4h 45m | 710 | 320 |
| 5 | July 15, 2021 18:45 | July 15, 2021 20:45 | 2h | 575 | 1,121 |
| 6 | August 3, 2021 17:15 | August 3, 2021 18:15 | 1h | 575 | 575 |
| 7 | October 15, 2021 18:45 | October 15, 2021 20:15 | 1h 30m | 451 | 677 |
| 8 | August 1, 2021 05:15 | August 1, 2021 11:45 | 6h 30m | 96 | 80 |
| 9 | August 21, 2021 00:15 | August 21, 2021 04:00 | 3h 45m | 63 | 184 |
| 10 | June 3, 2021 16:00 | June 3, 2021 16:15 | 15m | 16 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 7 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2021, 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. | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | 1.45 | 2.1 hrs | 1.34 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2021 | 4.4 hrs | 1.83 | 2.3 hrs | 1.10 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.95 | 2.5 hrs | 1.60 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/minnesota/wadena-county