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2024 Wright County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Wright County, MN went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 144K customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2330th 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 Wright 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 | August 11, 2024 05:00 | August 11, 2024 10:00 | 5h | 7,268 | 30K |
| 2 | June 28, 2024 10:00 | June 29, 2024 03:15 | 17h 15m | 5,507 | 8,025 |
| 3 | October 31, 2024 09:30 | November 1, 2024 23:45 | 1d 14h | 5,472 | 24K |
| 4 | May 1, 2024 12:15 | May 1, 2024 22:45 | 10h 30m | 3,725 | 13K |
| 5 | July 14, 2024 01:15 | July 17, 2024 00:15 | 2d 23h | 2,828 | 15K |
| 6 | August 26, 2024 23:30 | August 27, 2024 20:30 | 21h | 2,479 | 7,316 |
| 7 | April 16, 2024 16:45 | April 16, 2024 18:45 | 2h | 2,266 | 568 |
| 8 | May 21, 2024 23:30 | May 22, 2024 10:30 | 11h | 2,024 | 5,456 |
| 9 | March 3, 2024 23:45 | March 4, 2024 09:45 | 10h | 2,005 | 1,671 |
| 10 | June 24, 2024 02:30 | June 24, 2024 05:00 | 2h 30m | 1,020 | 258 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 43 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 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 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2024 | 45 min | 0.37 | 24 min | 0.27 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2024 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 | 1.6 hrs | 1.04 |
| City of Elk River | 2024 | 42 min | 0.35 | 10 min | 0.14 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/wright-county