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2017 Murray County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Murray County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 1,918 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2371st 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 Murray 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 | August 20, 2017 21:45 | August 21, 2017 02:00 | 4h 15m | 203 | 606 |
| 2 | September 14, 2017 21:30 | September 14, 2017 22:30 | 1h | 181 | 181 |
| 3 | November 4, 2017 19:00 | November 4, 2017 20:15 | 1h 15m | 118 | 148 |
| 4 | August 26, 2017 04:00 | August 26, 2017 08:15 | 4h 15m | 95 | 262 |
| 5 | June 11, 2017 12:15 | June 11, 2017 18:30 | 6h 15m | 17 | 93 |
| 6 | June 28, 2017 05:00 | June 28, 2017 08:15 | 3h 15m | 17 | 38 |
| 7 | June 30, 2017 18:30 | June 30, 2017 20:00 | 1h 30m | 12 | 10 |
| 8 | October 13, 2017 14:00 | October 13, 2017 20:00 | 6h | 12 | 72 |
| 9 | November 8, 2017 19:45 | November 8, 2017 22:00 | 2h 15m | 12 | 20 |
| 10 | June 13, 2017 20:00 | June 13, 2017 23:00 | 3h | 11 | 27 |
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 Murray 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 |
| Sioux Valley SW Elec Coop | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.61 | 88 min | 1.43 |
| Federated Rural Electric Assn | 2017 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 | 2.1 hrs | 1.24 |
| Nobles Cooperative Electric | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.18 | 74 min | 0.78 |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2017 | 1.5 hrs | 1.37 | 1.5 hrs | 1.37 |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 5,226 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. Murray County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Murray 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/murray-county