County annual report · FIPS 27041
2015 Douglas County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Douglas County, MN went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 1,458 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2363rd 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 Douglas 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 | April 15, 2015 15:15 | April 15, 2015 18:15 | 3h | 332 | 996 |
| 2 | September 15, 2015 15:00 | September 15, 2015 16:45 | 1h 45m | 136 | 238 |
| 3 | May 13, 2015 10:30 | May 13, 2015 11:30 | 1h | 98 | 98 |
| 4 | July 5, 2015 01:45 | July 5, 2015 02:00 | 15m | 14 | 4 |
| 5 | October 12, 2015 17:15 | October 12, 2015 20:15 | 3h | 14 | 29 |
| 6 | September 1, 2015 23:45 | September 2, 2015 02:15 | 2h 30m | 12 | 30 |
| 7 | September 2, 2015 03:45 | September 2, 2015 08:00 | 4h 15m | 12 | 51 |
| 8 | August 16, 2015 08:45 | August 16, 2015 10:30 | 1h 45m | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | May 13, 2015 19:00 | May 13, 2015 19:30 | 30m | 1 | 1 |
| 10 | June 18, 2015 21:45 | June 18, 2015 22:00 | 15m | 1 | 0 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 2 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 Douglas 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 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2015 | 6.2 hrs | 1.34 | 34 min | 0.57 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.51 | 1.8 hrs | 1.37 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2015 | 86 min | 0.92 | 86 min | 0.92 |
| City of Alexandria - (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 ÷ 23,496 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county