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2017 Meeker County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Meeker County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1958th 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 Meeker 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 | June 11, 2017 12:45 | June 13, 2017 21:15 | 2d 8h | 829 | 11K |
| 2 | June 29, 2017 21:45 | June 29, 2017 22:45 | 1h | 349 | 182 |
| 3 | April 19, 2017 16:30 | April 19, 2017 17:15 | 45m | 324 | 243 |
| 4 | October 18, 2017 04:45 | October 18, 2017 10:45 | 6h | 58 | 348 |
| 5 | October 27, 2017 22:15 | October 28, 2017 01:45 | 3h 30m | 27 | 76 |
| 6 | May 15, 2017 09:15 | May 15, 2017 11:30 | 2h 15m | 21 | 47 |
| 7 | September 27, 2017 14:00 | September 27, 2017 16:15 | 2h 15m | 19 | 25 |
| 8 | June 2, 2017 03:15 | June 2, 2017 07:30 | 4h 15m | 18 | 72 |
| 9 | July 5, 2017 12:30 | July 5, 2017 15:45 | 3h 15m | 4 | 9 |
| 10 | June 14, 2017 02:45 | June 14, 2017 05:45 | 3h | 3 | 9 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 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 Meeker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2017 | 82 min | 0.58 | 36 min | 0.45 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 2.24 | 57 min | 1.64 |
| City of Grove City | - | - | - | - | - |
| Litchfield Public Utilities | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 9,659 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. Meeker County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Meeker 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/meeker-county