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2025 Polk County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Polk County, MN went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2073rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Polk County, 2025
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 21, 2025 04:00 | June 22, 2025 12:15 | 1d 8h | 4,006 | 36K |
| 2 | May 15, 2025 18:30 | May 16, 2025 00:15 | 5h 45m | 1,019 | 1,251 |
| 3 | October 11, 2025 05:15 | October 13, 2025 13:30 | 2d 8h | 680 | 2,200 |
| 4 | July 7, 2025 16:15 | July 7, 2025 16:30 | 15m | 461 | 115 |
| 5 | June 12, 2025 12:00 | June 12, 2025 12:45 | 45m | 405 | 303 |
| 6 | November 16, 2025 14:15 | November 16, 2025 16:00 | 1h 45m | 405 | 630 |
| 7 | October 26, 2025 17:30 | October 26, 2025 21:00 | 3h 30m | 377 | 338 |
| 8 | January 29, 2025 22:15 | January 29, 2025 23:00 | 45m | 330 | 221 |
| 9 | February 28, 2025 13:45 | February 28, 2025 15:30 | 1h 45m | 309 | 227 |
| 10 | April 20, 2025 16:30 | April 21, 2025 13:00 | 20h 30m | 298 | 762 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 25 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Polk County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 1.37 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2024 | 2.6 hrs | 0.99 | 76 min | 0.80 |
| Red Lake Electric Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.0 hrs | 1.00 | - | - |
| P K M Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.3 hrs | 5.70 | 80 min | 1.50 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Clearwater-Polk Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of East Grand Forks - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fosston - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Nielsville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 19,237 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. Polk County has data for 2020–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk County, MN annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/minnesota/polk-county