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2022 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 21K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2145th 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 Wadena 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 13, 2022 01:15 | May 15, 2022 02:00 | 2d | 2,087 | 10K |
| 2 | June 25, 2022 03:45 | June 25, 2022 08:45 | 5h | 716 | 3,203 |
| 3 | September 15, 2022 15:30 | September 15, 2022 19:15 | 3h 45m | 715 | 186 |
| 4 | May 30, 2022 22:30 | June 1, 2022 00:30 | 1d 2h | 667 | 6,720 |
| 5 | May 18, 2022 23:00 | May 19, 2022 00:30 | 1h 30m | 170 | 213 |
| 6 | December 22, 2022 20:45 | December 22, 2022 21:00 | 15m | 170 | 43 |
| 7 | August 10, 2022 13:30 | August 10, 2022 18:00 | 4h 30m | 56 | 21 |
| 8 | July 5, 2022 17:30 | July 5, 2022 19:15 | 1h 45m | 21 | 18 |
| 9 | February 24, 2022 22:15 | February 25, 2022 04:15 | 6h | 16 | 96 |
| 10 | December 12, 2022 16:30 | December 12, 2022 20:45 | 4h 15m | 12 | 26 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2022 | 8.3 hrs | 2.05 | 1.9 hrs | 1.12 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2022 | 10.6 hrs | 2.46 | 1.9 hrs | 1.01 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2022 | 5.8 hrs | 4.32 | 2.1 hrs | 2.72 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/wadena-county