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2017 Becker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Becker County, MN went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2097th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Becker County, 2017
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 12, 2017 03:15 | July 12, 2017 11:00 | 7h 45m | 1,226 | 1,078 |
| 2 | June 14, 2017 03:00 | June 15, 2017 20:15 | 1d 17h | 1,212 | 9,326 |
| 3 | September 20, 2017 13:30 | September 20, 2017 17:30 | 4h | 619 | 1,629 |
| 4 | October 18, 2017 14:45 | October 18, 2017 18:00 | 3h 15m | 466 | 682 |
| 5 | August 2, 2017 13:45 | August 2, 2017 14:00 | 15m | 390 | 98 |
| 6 | August 7, 2017 14:00 | August 7, 2017 16:15 | 2h 15m | 390 | 878 |
| 7 | November 17, 2017 15:15 | November 17, 2017 18:45 | 3h 30m | 383 | 1,341 |
| 8 | October 16, 2017 23:30 | October 17, 2017 02:15 | 2h 45m | 324 | 206 |
| 9 | May 5, 2017 19:00 | May 5, 2017 20:30 | 1h 30m | 262 | 340 |
| 10 | March 8, 2017 10:00 | March 8, 2017 14:30 | 4h 30m | 259 | 1,141 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 19 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Becker County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 2.12 | 2.0 hrs | 2.00 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 2.08 | 2.0 hrs | 1.19 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2017 | 65 min | 1.11 | 65 min | 1.11 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.85 | 2.3 hrs | 1.85 |
| City of Detroit Lakes - (MN) | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 0.88 | 11 min | 0.25 |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Lake Park - (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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 24,622 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. Becker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Becker County, MN annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/minnesota/becker-county