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2022 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 119K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2341st 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 Wright 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 30, 2022 10:00 | June 1, 2022 01:00 | 1d 15h | 8,071 | 27K |
| 2 | May 9, 2022 23:45 | May 10, 2022 11:30 | 11h 45m | 4,704 | 7,975 |
| 3 | April 17, 2022 23:30 | April 18, 2022 02:00 | 2h 30m | 3,920 | 988 |
| 4 | October 24, 2022 12:15 | October 24, 2022 15:15 | 3h | 3,315 | 833 |
| 5 | May 11, 2022 11:30 | May 14, 2022 00:45 | 2d 13h | 2,487 | 7,537 |
| 6 | May 1, 2022 22:00 | May 2, 2022 01:00 | 3h | 2,390 | 3,376 |
| 7 | December 28, 2022 22:30 | December 29, 2022 01:15 | 2h 45m | 2,031 | 3,556 |
| 8 | August 18, 2022 20:15 | August 19, 2022 04:30 | 8h 15m | 2,003 | 2,636 |
| 9 | January 24, 2022 17:00 | January 24, 2022 21:00 | 4h | 1,827 | 1,874 |
| 10 | June 20, 2022 20:15 | June 22, 2022 00:00 | 1d 3h | 1,451 | 8,115 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 58 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2022 | 54 min | 0.64 | 29 min | 0.42 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2022 | 2.1 hrs | 1.92 | 2.1 hrs | 1.92 |
| City of Elk River | 2022 | 13 min | 0.15 | 13 min | 0.15 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/wright-county