County annual report · FIPS 27085
2015 McLeod County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in McLeod County, MN went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1380th 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 McLeod 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 | August 22, 2015 20:45 | August 22, 2015 23:15 | 2h 30m | 1,624 | 3,416 |
| 2 | July 18, 2015 05:00 | July 19, 2015 01:45 | 20h 45m | 1,351 | 15K |
| 3 | December 15, 2015 20:00 | December 15, 2015 20:15 | 15m | 1,178 | 295 |
| 4 | July 19, 2015 03:00 | July 19, 2015 20:15 | 17h 15m | 304 | 4,305 |
| 5 | July 19, 2015 21:15 | July 20, 2015 22:30 | 1d 1h | 304 | 1,383 |
| 6 | July 20, 2015 23:30 | July 21, 2015 00:30 | 1h | 304 | 152 |
| 7 | July 21, 2015 02:45 | July 21, 2015 03:15 | 30m | 304 | 152 |
| 8 | July 21, 2015 06:00 | July 21, 2015 07:00 | 1h | 304 | 152 |
| 9 | July 21, 2015 08:15 | July 21, 2015 09:15 | 1h | 304 | 152 |
| 10 | July 21, 2015 11:15 | July 21, 2015 11:30 | 15m | 304 | 76 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 15 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 McLeod 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.88 | 82 min | 0.81 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.83 | 2.1 hrs | 0.83 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2015 | 57 min | 0.57 | 44 min | 0.52 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2015 | 67 min | 0.85 | 67 min | 0.85 |
| City of Brownton - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glencoe Light & Power Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hutchinson 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 ÷ 16,570 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. McLeod County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), McLeod 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/mcleod-county