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2022 Hennepin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Hennepin County, MN went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1761st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hennepin County, 2022
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 9, 2022 12:15 | June 6, 2022 02:15 | 27d 14h | 54,153 | 936K |
| 2 | August 2, 2022 11:15 | August 13, 2022 03:15 | 10d 16h | 46,035 | 439K |
| 3 | February 8, 2022 13:15 | February 8, 2022 23:30 | 10h 15m | 18,172 | 15K |
| 4 | August 28, 2022 00:30 | September 1, 2022 09:15 | 4d 8h | 17,160 | 133K |
| 5 | September 11, 2022 10:15 | September 12, 2022 04:45 | 18h 30m | 9,725 | 19K |
| 6 | November 4, 2022 04:15 | November 5, 2022 01:00 | 20h 45m | 9,498 | 15K |
| 7 | October 20, 2022 11:45 | October 21, 2022 02:45 | 15h | 8,214 | 3,690 |
| 8 | November 29, 2022 13:45 | November 29, 2022 14:00 | 15m | 7,442 | 1,861 |
| 9 | March 16, 2022 17:45 | March 17, 2022 22:15 | 1d 4h | 6,906 | 7,819 |
| 10 | June 12, 2022 04:30 | June 23, 2022 05:45 | 11d 1h | 6,737 | 66K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 230 reached 100+ customers, 71 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Hennepin County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.08 | 72 min | 0.72 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2022 | 1.5 hrs | 1.01 | 45 min | 0.61 |
| Connexus Energy | 2022 | 80 min | 0.53 | 27 min | 0.29 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2022 | 54 min | 0.64 | 29 min | 0.42 |
| City of Elk River | 2022 | 13 min | 0.15 | 13 min | 0.15 |
| City of Anoka | 2022 | 54 min | 0.47 | 36 min | 0.31 |
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 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 624,985 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. Hennepin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hennepin County, MN annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/minnesota/hennepin-county