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2025 Wadena County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Wadena County, MN went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 8,363 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.7 hours). That ranks 70th worst of 85 Minnesota counties and 2772nd 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 Wadena 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 | November 25, 2025 21:00 | November 25, 2025 23:30 | 2h 30m | 2,062 | 2,026 |
| 2 | June 17, 2025 08:15 | June 17, 2025 09:00 | 45m | 1,613 | 1,210 |
| 3 | January 24, 2025 21:45 | January 25, 2025 03:15 | 5h 30m | 629 | 284 |
| 4 | February 5, 2025 19:30 | February 5, 2025 20:00 | 30m | 625 | 313 |
| 5 | January 14, 2025 17:45 | January 14, 2025 18:00 | 15m | 622 | 156 |
| 6 | June 21, 2025 06:30 | June 21, 2025 20:15 | 13h 45m | 461 | 3,342 |
| 7 | April 24, 2025 18:15 | April 24, 2025 18:30 | 15m | 388 | 97 |
| 8 | March 3, 2025 01:00 | March 3, 2025 02:30 | 1h 30m | 113 | 170 |
| 9 | May 16, 2025 08:00 | May 16, 2025 12:45 | 4h 45m | 69 | 233 |
| 10 | August 6, 2025 07:45 | August 6, 2025 10:30 | 2h 45m | 54 | 124 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 8 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 Wadena 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 | 2.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2024 | 5.0 hrs | 1.82 | 1.7 hrs | 1.00 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2024 | 2.5 hrs | 1.54 | 1.8 hrs | 1.38 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/wadena-county