County annual report · FIPS 27041
2017 Douglas County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Douglas County, MN went without power for an average of 0.0 hours, a total of 113 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2711th 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 Douglas 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 | May 31, 2017 15:00 | May 31, 2017 15:15 | 15m | 77 | 19 |
| 2 | May 31, 2017 16:15 | May 31, 2017 16:30 | 15m | 77 | 19 |
| 3 | September 9, 2017 21:00 | September 9, 2017 21:15 | 15m | 51 | 13 |
| 4 | January 11, 2017 01:15 | January 11, 2017 02:00 | 45m | 39 | 20 |
| 5 | January 24, 2017 16:15 | January 24, 2017 16:30 | 15m | 39 | 10 |
| 6 | August 17, 2017 05:15 | August 17, 2017 05:30 | 15m | 18 | 5 |
| 7 | August 17, 2017 06:15 | August 17, 2017 06:30 | 15m | 18 | 5 |
| 8 | August 17, 2017 09:00 | August 17, 2017 09:15 | 15m | 18 | 5 |
| 9 | June 13, 2017 13:00 | June 13, 2017 13:45 | 45m | 15 | 4 |
| 10 | June 24, 2017 16:15 | June 24, 2017 16:30 | 15m | 14 | 4 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 0 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 Douglas 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 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2017 | 65 min | 1.11 | 65 min | 1.11 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.03 | 80 min | 0.84 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 0.91 | 78 min | 0.77 |
| City of Alexandria - (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 ÷ 23,496 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. Douglas County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Douglas 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/douglas-county