Power outages in Minnesota, by utility
Across 37 Minnesota utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 1.7 hours in 2025 — that is 1.8× better than the national median. Minnesota ranks #35 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 1.7 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 9.3 hrs
- Otter Tail Power Co
- Best utility
- 0.1 hrs
- City of Marshall - (MN)
- Utilities reporting
- 37
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Minnesota utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otter Tail Power CoInvestor Owned | 9.3 hrs557 min | 1.7 | 3.1× worse |
| 2 | Lake Country PowerCooperative | 6.9 hrs415 min | 2.3 | 2.3× worse |
| 3 | Agralite Electric CoopCooperative | 4.3 hrs255 min | 2.0 | 1.4× worse |
| 4 | Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN)Cooperative | 3.8 hrs227 min | 1.6 | 1.3× worse |
| 5 | Northern States Power Co - MinnesotaInvestor Owned | 3.8 hrs226 min | 1.4 | 1.3× worse |
| 6 | MiEnergy CooperativeCooperative | 3.5 hrs213 min | 1.1 | 1.2× worse |
| 7 | Mille Lacs Energy CooperativeCooperative | 3.5 hrs208 min | 1.4 | 1.2× worse |
| 8 | Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical AssnCooperative | 3.3 hrs196 min | 1.5 | 1.1× worse |
| 9 | Freeborn Mower Electric CooperativeCooperative | 2.9 hrs172 min | 1.6 | 1.0× better |
| 10 | Meeker Coop Light & Power AssnCooperative | 2.5 hrs151 min | 1.4 | 1.2× better |
| 11 | ALLETE, Inc.Investor Owned | 2.4 hrs143 min | 1.2 | 1.2× better |
| 12 | Runestone Electric AssnCooperative | 2.3 hrs135 min | 1.6 | 1.3× better |
| 13 | Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light CompCooperative | 2.2 hrs130 min | 0.9 | 1.4× better |
| 14 | South Central Electric AssnCooperative | 2.1 hrs125 min | 1.1 | 1.4× better |
| 15 | Minnesota Valley Coop L&P AssnCooperative | 2.1 hrs125 min | 1.5 | 1.4× better |
| 16 | Federated Rural Electric AssnCooperative | 1.9 hrs116 min | 1.2 | 1.5× better |
| 17 | Stearns Cooperative Elec AssnCooperative | 1.8 hrs107 min | 1.0 | 1.7× better |
| 18 | Heartland Power CoopCooperative | 1.7 hrs103 min | 1.3 | 1.7× better |
| 19 | City of Owatonna - (MN)Municipal | 1.7 hrs100 min | 0.8 | 1.8× better |
| 20 | People's Cooperative ServicesCooperative | 1.7 hrs99 min | 1.2 | 1.8× better |
| 21 | East Central EnergyCooperative | 1.6 hrs97 min | 1.0 | 1.8× better |
| 22 | Sioux Valley SW Elec CoopCooperative | 1.6 hrs95 min | 1.9 | 1.9× better |
| 23 | Steele-Waseca Cooperative ElectricCooperative | 1.5 hrs90 min | 0.7 | 2.0× better |
| 24 | Minnesota Valley Electric CoopCooperative | 1.5 hrs87 min | 0.7 | 2.0× better |
| 25 | Connexus EnergyCooperative | 0.9 hrs54 min | 0.6 | 3.3× better |
| 26 | Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec AssnCooperative | 0.7 hrs45 min | 0.6 | 4.0× better |
| 27 | Rochester Public UtilitiesMunicipal | 0.6 hrs33 min | 0.6 | 5.4× better |
| 28 | Dakota Electric AssociationCooperative | 0.5 hrs29 min | 0.3 | 6.2× better |
| 29 | Brainerd Public UtilitiesMunicipal | 0.4 hrs21 min | 0.3 | 8.4× better |
| 30 | City of AnokaMunicipal | 0.3 hrs19 min | 0.2 | 9.1× better |
| 31 | City of Elk RiverMunicipal | 0.3 hrs19 min | 0.3 | 9.4× better |
| 32 | Willmar Municipal Utilities (MN)Municipal | 0.3 hrs16 min | 0.4 | 11.0× better |
| 33 | City of Alexandria - (MN)Municipal | 0.3 hrs16 min | 0.3 | 11.5× better |
| 34 | City of Moorhead - (MN)Municipal | 0.2 hrs15 min | 0.4 | 12.3× better |
| 35 | Shakopee Public Utilities CommMunicipal | 0.2 hrs13 min | 0.2 | 14.1× better |
| 36 | City of Austin - (MN)Municipal | 0.1 hrs8 min | 0.2 | 23.1× better |
| 37 | City of Marshall - (MN)Municipal | 0.1 hrs5 min | 0.2 | 36.6× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.