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2015 Pipestone County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Pipestone County, MN went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 8,839 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1278th 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 Pipestone 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 | December 22, 2015 17:15 | December 23, 2015 01:00 | 7h 45m | 1,106 | 4,380 |
| 2 | August 10, 2015 01:00 | August 10, 2015 05:45 | 4h 45m | 701 | 2,748 |
| 3 | August 10, 2015 06:45 | August 10, 2015 11:30 | 4h 45m | 688 | 180 |
| 4 | December 16, 2015 17:15 | December 16, 2015 20:45 | 3h 30m | 426 | 598 |
| 5 | September 2, 2015 13:15 | September 2, 2015 16:15 | 3h | 62 | 85 |
| 6 | September 2, 2015 00:45 | September 2, 2015 07:00 | 6h 15m | 53 | 114 |
| 7 | August 17, 2015 20:00 | August 17, 2015 21:00 | 1h | 46 | 46 |
| 8 | May 25, 2015 11:30 | May 25, 2015 13:30 | 2h | 38 | 57 |
| 9 | October 3, 2015 20:45 | October 3, 2015 22:15 | 1h 30m | 28 | 42 |
| 10 | December 23, 2015 02:00 | December 23, 2015 09:00 | 7h | 26 | 149 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 4 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 Pipestone 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 |
| 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 |
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 ÷ 4,666 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. Pipestone County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pipestone 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/pipestone-county