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2015 Murray County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Murray County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 4,959 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1796th 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 Murray 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 20, 2015 09:15 | June 20, 2015 12:15 | 3h | 1,645 | 1,305 |
| 2 | October 23, 2015 09:15 | October 23, 2015 13:15 | 4h | 441 | 1,629 |
| 3 | May 28, 2015 18:00 | May 28, 2015 23:15 | 5h 15m | 440 | 170 |
| 4 | November 12, 2015 19:45 | November 12, 2015 21:15 | 1h 30m | 377 | 566 |
| 5 | December 22, 2015 20:15 | December 22, 2015 23:15 | 3h | 335 | 528 |
| 6 | August 27, 2015 19:45 | August 27, 2015 20:00 | 15m | 218 | 55 |
| 7 | November 17, 2015 07:45 | November 17, 2015 12:30 | 4h 45m | 76 | 174 |
| 8 | December 26, 2015 08:00 | December 26, 2015 17:15 | 9h 15m | 40 | 158 |
| 9 | August 26, 2015 23:15 | August 27, 2015 01:30 | 2h 15m | 22 | 50 |
| 10 | July 14, 2015 17:15 | July 14, 2015 20:15 | 3h | 17 | 35 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Murray 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2015 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 | 2.0 hrs | 1.29 |
| 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 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2015 | 9 min | 0.01 | 9 min | 0.01 |
| South Central Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,226 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. Murray County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Murray 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/murray-county