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2024 Hennepin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hennepin County, MN went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 4.1M customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 1326th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hennepin County, 2024
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 8, 2024 11:15 | July 17, 2024 11:00 | 8d 23h | 75,672 | 1.5M |
| 2 | August 26, 2024 11:30 | September 4, 2024 06:00 | 8d 18h | 71,755 | 1.4M |
| 3 | October 12, 2024 17:15 | October 13, 2024 02:00 | 8h 45m | 15,099 | 4,024 |
| 4 | October 28, 2024 12:30 | November 3, 2024 02:15 | 5d 13h | 14,294 | 73K |
| 5 | August 3, 2024 10:30 | August 10, 2024 08:00 | 6d 21h | 13,405 | 109K |
| 6 | October 15, 2024 11:45 | October 19, 2024 06:00 | 3d 18h | 9,741 | 28K |
| 7 | February 8, 2024 05:45 | February 8, 2024 07:15 | 1h 30m | 8,804 | 9,614 |
| 8 | February 14, 2024 13:30 | March 7, 2024 05:00 | 21d 15h | 8,565 | 31K |
| 9 | May 17, 2024 06:15 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 6d 18h | 7,914 | 42K |
| 10 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | June 14, 2024 10:45 | 21d 1h | 7,812 | 97K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 155 reached 100+ customers, 63 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2024 | 61 min | 0.72 | 42 min | 0.48 |
| Connexus Energy | 2024 | 3.0 hrs | 0.85 | 30 min | 0.33 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2024 | 45 min | 0.37 | 24 min | 0.27 |
| City of Elk River | 2024 | 42 min | 0.35 | 10 min | 0.14 |
| City of Anoka | 2024 | 40 min | 0.39 | 40 min | 0.39 |
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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/minnesota/hennepin-county