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2023 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,266 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2905th 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 Wadena 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 | August 11, 2023 18:30 | August 11, 2023 21:30 | 3h | 379 | 865 |
| 2 | September 27, 2023 13:30 | September 27, 2023 16:00 | 2h 30m | 95 | 236 |
| 3 | June 18, 2023 17:45 | June 18, 2023 20:00 | 2h 15m | 9 | 20 |
| 4 | March 30, 2023 15:45 | March 30, 2023 16:00 | 15m | 8 | 2 |
| 5 | June 28, 2023 00:45 | June 28, 2023 02:00 | 1h 15m | 8 | 10 |
| 6 | October 25, 2023 15:15 | October 25, 2023 16:30 | 1h 15m | 8 | 10 |
| 7 | January 20, 2023 16:45 | January 20, 2023 17:00 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | April 14, 2023 00:15 | April 14, 2023 02:45 | 2h 30m | 6 | 15 |
| 9 | November 6, 2023 18:45 | November 6, 2023 20:00 | 1h 15m | 6 | 8 |
| 10 | December 15, 2023 15:00 | December 15, 2023 16:15 | 1h 15m | 6 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.24 | 1.7 hrs | 1.16 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.84 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2023 | 2.7 hrs | 2.99 | 1.8 hrs | 2.53 |
| 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 n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; 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, 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/wadena-county