Twin Cities tracker · Counting since October 12, 2026

Twin Cities Tracker

Every road closure, water issue, outage, construction notice and transit alert the city's agencies, utilities and newsrooms reported across Twin Cities and the close-in metro, counted week by week. No login, no feed. Just the numbers, and where they landed.

What the numbers say

Hear the week in Twin CitiesAbout 30 seconds, in Scout's voice. Recorded at 8 AM today. A new reading comes at 7 AM and 3 PM.

A steady week on the roads, with I-94 coming up most. Water was quiet.

Half of Twin Cities's road incidents clear within 87 minutes. The longest ran 5 days.

Measured from 1022 with a start and end time, the last 3 weeks.

Half of Twin Cities's outages clear within 2.1 hours. The longest ran 18 hours.

Measured from 413 with a start and end time, the last 3 weeks.

Half of Twin Cities's construction notices clear within 7 hours. The longest ran 4 days.

Measured from 134 with a start and end time, the last 3 weeks.

Half of Twin Cities's transit alerts clear within 2 hours. The longest ran 14 days.

Measured from 659 with a start and end time, the last 3 weeks.

Week by week

Road & trafficWater (no feed yet)PowerConstructionTransit
0100200300400Oct 11Oct 11: 266 road incidentsOct 11: 0 water issuesOct 11: 160 outagesOct 11: 97 construction noticesOct 11: 261 transit alertsOct 11Oct 11Road266Water0Power160Construction97Transit261Oct 18Oct 18: 329 road incidentsOct 18: 1 water issueOct 18: 118 outagesOct 18: 70 construction noticesOct 18: 240 transit alertsOct 18Oct 18Road329Water1Power118Construction70Transit240Oct 25Oct 25: 320 road incidentsOct 25: 0 water issuesOct 25: 133 outagesOct 25: 52 construction noticesOct 25: 243 transit alertsOct 25Oct 25Road320Water0Power133Construction52Transit243Nov 1 so farNov 1 so far: 215 road incidentsNov 1 so far: 0 water issuesNov 1 so far: 54 outagesNov 1 so far: 17 construction noticesNov 1 so far: 85 transit alertsNov 1so farNov 1 so farRoad215Water0Power54Construction17Transit85

Construction notices have eased two weeks running, 97 to 52. Road, power and transit have held steady. Water stayed quiet.

Weeks start on Sunday. One thing is counted once per place per day, and something that runs for days counts on the day it started. Brief lane blocks that cleared inside an hour are left out, closures scheduled to run longer than a week are roadworks rather than incidents, an outage counts when it left 10 or more customers without power, and stories about policy or funding are not incidents.

Where Twin Cities was hit this week

The places that came up most in the last 7 days.

Last 7 days
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Areas, most affected first

492 placed

What the map says

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Areas are measured from Minneapolis City Hall: within 2.5 miles is Downtown Minneapolis, within 9 miles (about where the I-494 and I-694 ring runs) is that side of the metro, and beyond that is the rest of the metro. St. Paul is its own centre: anything within 4.5 miles of its downtown is placed as St. Paul. An item with no coordinates is counted in the totals but not placed on the map. Corridors come from the road a source named. Interstates are split into the stretch north, south, east or west of downtown Minneapolis, since one number for a whole interstate hides where the trouble is. Wards are the thirteen City of Minneapolis council wards, from the city's GIS. St. Paul and the suburbs have their own governments and are shown on the metro map.

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Sources are read every ten minutes, and the counts are rebuilt whenever one of them publishes something new. Last counted Nov 4, 8:43 AM CT.
Only what these sources published. Nothing inferred. Counted once when an agency and a newsroom report the same thing.

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