County annual report · FIPS 27027
2015 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 4,095 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2292nd 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 Clay 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 | July 24, 2015 06:15 | July 24, 2015 09:15 | 3h | 746 | 1,306 |
| 2 | August 22, 2015 21:45 | August 23, 2015 01:45 | 4h | 553 | 840 |
| 3 | August 1, 2015 21:00 | August 2, 2015 05:00 | 8h | 109 | 820 |
| 4 | June 17, 2015 05:30 | June 17, 2015 11:00 | 5h 30m | 71 | 363 |
| 5 | April 19, 2015 07:45 | April 19, 2015 11:15 | 3h 30m | 69 | 225 |
| 6 | April 13, 2015 14:15 | April 13, 2015 15:30 | 1h 15m | 52 | 59 |
| 7 | July 28, 2015 10:00 | July 28, 2015 11:45 | 1h 45m | 44 | 77 |
| 8 | May 4, 2015 15:45 | May 4, 2015 17:00 | 1h 15m | 43 | 54 |
| 9 | July 4, 2015 13:30 | July 4, 2015 14:30 | 1h | 25 | 13 |
| 10 | March 30, 2015 15:00 | March 30, 2015 15:30 | 30m | 20 | 10 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 3 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 Clay 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.85 | 1.9 hrs | 1.41 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2015 | 50 min | 0.72 | 50 min | 0.72 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2015 | 35 min | 0.78 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county