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2017 Lyon County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lyon County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 5,463 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2332nd 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 Lyon 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 21, 2017 12:00 | July 21, 2017 15:45 | 3h 45m | 692 | 1,313 |
| 2 | January 10, 2017 19:15 | January 10, 2017 20:30 | 1h 15m | 651 | 756 |
| 3 | June 11, 2017 16:30 | June 11, 2017 17:00 | 30m | 638 | 160 |
| 4 | June 9, 2017 02:15 | June 9, 2017 04:15 | 2h | 600 | 1,198 |
| 5 | May 1, 2017 07:30 | May 1, 2017 21:15 | 13h 45m | 192 | 1,325 |
| 6 | July 12, 2017 05:45 | July 12, 2017 10:00 | 4h 15m | 152 | 220 |
| 7 | April 30, 2017 22:00 | May 1, 2017 02:15 | 4h 15m | 45 | 191 |
| 8 | March 6, 2017 13:45 | March 6, 2017 16:00 | 2h 15m | 23 | 47 |
| 9 | April 6, 2017 15:45 | April 6, 2017 17:00 | 1h 15m | 12 | 15 |
| 10 | June 10, 2017 23:30 | June 11, 2017 04:15 | 4h 45m | 9 | 38 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 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 Lyon 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 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.18 | 74 min | 0.78 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | - | 51 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2017 | 1.5 hrs | 1.37 | 1.5 hrs | 1.37 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Marshall - (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 ÷ 12,443 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. Lyon County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lyon 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/lyon-county