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2015 Redwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Redwood County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,055 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2135th 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 Redwood 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 | May 1, 2015 14:30 | May 1, 2015 15:30 | 1h | 1,312 | 1,135 |
| 2 | April 1, 2015 21:15 | April 1, 2015 22:30 | 1h 15m | 285 | 343 |
| 3 | June 22, 2015 12:30 | June 22, 2015 20:30 | 8h | 265 | 1,341 |
| 4 | June 11, 2015 08:30 | June 11, 2015 10:45 | 2h 15m | 76 | 153 |
| 5 | May 28, 2015 01:15 | May 28, 2015 03:30 | 2h 15m | 12 | 18 |
| 6 | July 24, 2015 11:45 | July 24, 2015 13:15 | 1h 30m | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | May 28, 2015 18:00 | May 28, 2015 18:15 | 15m | 3 | 1 |
| 8 | October 23, 2015 09:30 | October 23, 2015 13:15 | 3h 45m | 3 | 11 |
| 9 | August 27, 2015 21:15 | August 27, 2015 23:30 | 2h 15m | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | August 28, 2015 05:45 | August 28, 2015 11:45 | 6h | 2 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 3 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 Redwood 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2015 | 3.3 hrs | 1.79 | 3.3 hrs | 1.79 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | - | 71 min | - |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2015 | 32 min | 0.04 | 32 min | 0.04 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Falls Public Util 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 ÷ 7,964 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. Redwood County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Redwood 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/redwood-county