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2023 Hennepin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hennepin County, MN went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1808th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hennepin County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 23, 2023 06:00 | July 2, 2023 03:00 | 8d 21h | 84,596 | 576K |
| 2 | March 31, 2023 21:00 | April 4, 2023 05:00 | 3d 8h | 26,674 | 417K |
| 3 | April 10, 2023 11:15 | May 17, 2023 06:15 | 36d 19h | 20,390 | 140K |
| 4 | July 25, 2023 11:15 | July 31, 2023 03:45 | 5d 16h | 13,153 | 121K |
| 5 | September 23, 2023 07:30 | October 7, 2023 04:45 | 13d 21h | 12,115 | 160K |
| 6 | June 14, 2023 09:45 | June 15, 2023 04:30 | 18h 45m | 11,184 | 17K |
| 7 | July 19, 2023 06:30 | July 22, 2023 07:15 | 3d | 10,918 | 43K |
| 8 | May 21, 2023 11:30 | May 21, 2023 16:30 | 5h | 6,902 | 5,143 |
| 9 | February 17, 2023 14:00 | February 18, 2023 01:30 | 11h 30m | 6,619 | 5,411 |
| 10 | August 10, 2023 11:45 | August 16, 2023 03:30 | 5d 15h | 6,430 | 42K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 190 reached 100+ customers, 64 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2023 | 43 min | 0.43 | 43 min | 0.43 |
| Connexus Energy | 2023 | 55 min | 0.62 | 26 min | 0.29 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2023 | 62 min | 0.76 | 28 min | 0.37 |
| City of Elk River | 2023 | 14 min | 0.17 | 6 min | 0.10 |
| City of Anoka | 2023 | 18 min | 0.23 | 18 min | 0.23 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/minnesota/hennepin-county