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2023 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2150th 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 Wright 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 | July 19, 2023 22:30 | July 20, 2023 17:15 | 18h 45m | 9,510 | 25K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 01:30 | April 2, 2023 11:30 | 1d 10h | 7,435 | 29K |
| 3 | September 30, 2023 00:45 | September 30, 2023 22:30 | 21h 45m | 4,635 | 14K |
| 4 | October 3, 2023 23:15 | October 4, 2023 21:00 | 21h 45m | 4,402 | 5,324 |
| 5 | June 22, 2023 02:00 | June 22, 2023 05:30 | 3h 30m | 4,351 | 6,066 |
| 6 | May 18, 2023 23:45 | May 19, 2023 07:00 | 7h 15m | 4,086 | 2,157 |
| 7 | September 18, 2023 12:45 | September 18, 2023 20:15 | 7h 30m | 3,933 | 2,958 |
| 8 | September 20, 2023 23:00 | September 21, 2023 03:15 | 4h 15m | 3,680 | 2,968 |
| 9 | September 29, 2023 11:45 | September 29, 2023 20:15 | 8h 30m | 2,786 | 3,037 |
| 10 | June 29, 2023 12:45 | June 29, 2023 23:00 | 10h 15m | 2,200 | 3,308 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 55 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2023 | 62 min | 0.76 | 28 min | 0.37 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2023 | 77 min | 1.12 | 77 min | 1.12 |
| City of Elk River | 2023 | 14 min | 0.17 | 6 min | 0.10 |
| 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 n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; 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, 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/wright-county