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2015 Cottonwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cottonwood County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 924 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2276th 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 Cottonwood 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 22, 2015 11:15 | June 23, 2015 03:00 | 15h 45m | 110 | 877 |
| 2 | January 8, 2015 19:45 | January 8, 2015 21:00 | 1h 15m | 18 | 23 |
| 3 | April 1, 2015 21:30 | April 1, 2015 22:30 | 1h | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | May 1, 2015 14:45 | May 1, 2015 15:30 | 45m | 3 | 2 |
| 5 | April 12, 2015 15:30 | April 12, 2015 18:30 | 3h | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | January 12, 2015 17:15 | January 12, 2015 19:45 | 2h 30m | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | January 14, 2015 15:30 | January 14, 2015 16:30 | 1h | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | January 20, 2015 16:45 | January 20, 2015 18:30 | 1h 45m | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | February 13, 2015 17:00 | February 13, 2015 20:45 | 3h 45m | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | March 5, 2015 19:00 | March 5, 2015 20:30 | 1h 30m | 1 | 2 |
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 Cottonwood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2015 | 2.5 hrs | 2.10 | 2.5 hrs | 2.10 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2015 | 3.3 hrs | 1.79 | 3.3 hrs | 1.79 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Mountain Lake - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Westbrook | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Windom | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,353 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. Cottonwood County has data for 2015, 2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cottonwood 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/cottonwood-county