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2015 Chippewa County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Chippewa County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 2,843 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2079th 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 Chippewa 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 | June 9, 2015 17:00 | June 9, 2015 18:45 | 1h 45m | 152 | 228 |
| 2 | June 23, 2015 15:30 | June 23, 2015 16:30 | 1h | 99 | 74 |
| 3 | July 28, 2015 10:15 | July 28, 2015 15:00 | 4h 45m | 53 | 168 |
| 4 | July 18, 2015 08:00 | July 18, 2015 16:45 | 8h 45m | 47 | 170 |
| 5 | December 19, 2015 02:00 | December 19, 2015 11:15 | 9h 15m | 45 | 379 |
| 6 | October 12, 2015 11:45 | October 12, 2015 23:30 | 11h 45m | 35 | 126 |
| 7 | November 27, 2015 11:15 | November 27, 2015 14:15 | 3h | 33 | 91 |
| 8 | June 26, 2015 13:45 | June 26, 2015 14:45 | 1h | 29 | 29 |
| 9 | August 10, 2015 12:30 | August 10, 2015 17:30 | 5h | 29 | 19 |
| 10 | July 9, 2015 04:45 | July 9, 2015 08:00 | 3h 15m | 21 | 53 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 1 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 Chippewa 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.88 | 82 min | 0.81 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | - | 71 min | - |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.46 | 2.2 hrs | 1.46 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2015 | 32 min | 0.04 | 32 min | 0.04 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2015 | 73 min | 0.82 | 73 min | 0.82 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 5,934 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. Chippewa County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Chippewa 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/chippewa-county