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2015 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 3,004 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 42nd worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2058th 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 Pope 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 | July 13, 2015 00:45 | July 13, 2015 05:15 | 4h 30m | 768 | 1,661 |
| 2 | August 14, 2015 06:30 | August 14, 2015 09:30 | 3h | 315 | 945 |
| 3 | September 16, 2015 13:30 | September 16, 2015 16:15 | 2h 45m | 54 | 125 |
| 4 | November 19, 2015 13:30 | November 19, 2015 14:00 | 30m | 42 | 21 |
| 5 | May 30, 2015 17:45 | May 30, 2015 19:30 | 1h 45m | 33 | 58 |
| 6 | August 18, 2015 23:00 | August 19, 2015 00:45 | 1h 45m | 19 | 24 |
| 7 | June 20, 2015 14:30 | June 20, 2015 17:00 | 2h 30m | 16 | 36 |
| 8 | June 20, 2015 17:45 | June 20, 2015 18:15 | 30m | 16 | 8 |
| 9 | August 19, 2015 03:45 | August 19, 2015 08:15 | 4h 30m | 6 | 20 |
| 10 | August 23, 2015 18:15 | August 23, 2015 21:15 | 3h | 6 | 7 |
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 Pope 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 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.51 | 1.8 hrs | 1.37 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.46 | 2.2 hrs | 1.46 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2015 | 86 min | 0.92 | 86 min | 0.92 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2015 | 73 min | 0.82 | 73 min | 0.82 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county