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2017 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 10K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2362nd 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 Clay 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 | November 29, 2017 20:45 | November 30, 2017 05:00 | 8h 15m | 2,511 | 3,775 |
| 2 | June 13, 2017 14:30 | June 13, 2017 19:00 | 4h 30m | 886 | 2,639 |
| 3 | October 26, 2017 14:45 | October 26, 2017 20:30 | 5h 45m | 605 | 958 |
| 4 | July 5, 2017 06:30 | July 5, 2017 11:00 | 4h 30m | 165 | 708 |
| 5 | May 16, 2017 14:00 | May 16, 2017 15:30 | 1h 30m | 130 | 195 |
| 6 | May 4, 2017 20:45 | May 4, 2017 23:00 | 2h 15m | 95 | 169 |
| 7 | August 24, 2017 20:15 | August 24, 2017 22:30 | 2h 15m | 81 | 118 |
| 8 | September 1, 2017 13:30 | September 1, 2017 16:00 | 2h 30m | 81 | 203 |
| 9 | October 2, 2017 19:30 | October 2, 2017 19:45 | 15m | 81 | 20 |
| 10 | June 18, 2017 12:15 | June 18, 2017 15:00 | 2h 45m | 65 | 114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 Clay 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 2.08 | 2.0 hrs | 1.19 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2017 | 62 min | 0.71 | 62 min | 0.71 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2017 | 43 min | 1.69 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities 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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county