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2015 Becker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Becker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.3 hours, a total of 8,366 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2160th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Becker County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 21, 2015 14:45 | October 21, 2015 16:15 | 1h 30m | 470 | 394 |
| 2 | November 19, 2015 02:30 | November 19, 2015 06:15 | 3h 45m | 452 | 1,017 |
| 3 | June 8, 2015 20:30 | June 8, 2015 21:30 | 1h | 388 | 388 |
| 4 | August 13, 2015 05:30 | August 13, 2015 15:15 | 9h 45m | 371 | 2,110 |
| 5 | January 22, 2015 00:30 | January 22, 2015 02:30 | 2h | 332 | 550 |
| 6 | January 1, 2015 17:45 | January 1, 2015 19:15 | 1h 30m | 331 | 420 |
| 7 | July 9, 2015 15:15 | July 9, 2015 16:15 | 1h | 242 | 97 |
| 8 | October 8, 2015 15:15 | October 8, 2015 21:30 | 6h 15m | 214 | 225 |
| 9 | January 28, 2015 19:45 | January 28, 2015 20:15 | 30m | 161 | 81 |
| 10 | January 13, 2015 12:30 | January 13, 2015 13:45 | 1h 15m | 155 | 183 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 14 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Becker County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | 3.23 | 1.8 hrs | 3.23 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.85 | 1.9 hrs | 1.41 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2015 | 6.2 hrs | 1.34 | 34 min | 0.57 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2015 | 4.1 hrs | 2.15 | 1.8 hrs | 1.15 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Detroit Lakes - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,622 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. Becker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Becker County, MN annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/minnesota/becker-county