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2021 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.1 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 79 Minnesota counties and 2596th 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 Wright 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 | October 18, 2021 16:30 | October 19, 2021 10:15 | 17h 45m | 4,549 | 5,565 |
| 2 | March 28, 2021 12:45 | March 28, 2021 20:00 | 7h 15m | 4,475 | 7,049 |
| 3 | October 13, 2021 14:45 | October 14, 2021 05:00 | 14h 15m | 4,346 | 13K |
| 4 | November 25, 2021 02:45 | November 25, 2021 07:30 | 4h 45m | 3,320 | 2,015 |
| 5 | December 19, 2021 02:45 | December 19, 2021 17:00 | 14h 15m | 1,566 | 3,644 |
| 6 | September 28, 2021 11:45 | September 29, 2021 00:45 | 13h | 1,347 | 3,663 |
| 7 | March 30, 2021 04:45 | March 30, 2021 09:30 | 4h 45m | 1,135 | 3,976 |
| 8 | December 12, 2021 13:30 | December 12, 2021 14:15 | 45m | 807 | 605 |
| 9 | February 26, 2021 17:00 | February 26, 2021 17:30 | 30m | 778 | 389 |
| 10 | August 24, 2021 09:30 | August 24, 2021 22:15 | 12h 45m | 767 | 1,297 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 45 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 0.82 | 77 min | 0.74 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2021 | 35 min | 0.48 | 31 min | 0.48 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2021 | 1.6 hrs | 1.56 | 1.6 hrs | 1.56 |
| City of Elk River | 2021 | 49 min | 0.39 | 49 min | 0.39 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/wright-county