Attendance at the Minnesota State Fair on Wednesday was the lowest the fairgrounds has seen in 2025, with just 114,932 fairgoers passing through the gates.

That figure is lower than any single-day attendance mark from 2024 outside of two days where the fair was impacted by severe weather.

Nonetheless, through its first seven days, the Minnesota State Fair totaled 1,066,682 attendees, more than it saw to this point in either of the last two years.

While the two most sparsely attended days came on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the lone Tuesday and Wednesday of the fair tend to be among those with the lowest attendance annually.

This past Wednesday morning also saw the shocking scenes in south Minneapolis, where an individual opened fire at Annunciation Church, killing two children

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