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2015 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 3,493 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 1477th 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 Yellow Medicine 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 28, 2015 05:45 | August 28, 2015 13:15 | 7h 30m | 696 | 3,206 |
| 2 | November 16, 2015 09:45 | November 16, 2015 13:30 | 3h 45m | 44 | 165 |
| 3 | October 29, 2015 14:45 | October 29, 2015 16:30 | 1h 45m | 27 | 47 |
| 4 | October 31, 2015 04:45 | October 31, 2015 09:00 | 4h 15m | 11 | 24 |
| 5 | May 23, 2015 16:00 | May 23, 2015 19:15 | 3h 15m | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | June 22, 2015 15:00 | June 22, 2015 20:00 | 5h | 2 | 9 |
| 7 | September 30, 2015 17:45 | September 30, 2015 20:00 | 2h 15m | 2 | 5 |
| 8 | October 1, 2015 18:15 | October 1, 2015 21:30 | 3h 15m | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | October 4, 2015 22:45 | October 5, 2015 00:30 | 1h 45m | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | October 13, 2015 13:45 | October 13, 2015 14:30 | 45m | 2 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 1 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 2.14 | 84 min | 1.34 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | - | 71 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2015 | 9 min | 0.01 | 9 min | 0.01 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county