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2017 Otter Tail County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Otter Tail County, MN went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1377th 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 Otter Tail 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 13, 2017 11:30 | June 16, 2017 05:00 | 2d 17h | 4,740 | 58K |
| 2 | July 12, 2017 03:15 | July 12, 2017 19:00 | 15h 45m | 2,214 | 4,297 |
| 3 | September 25, 2017 15:15 | September 25, 2017 18:15 | 3h | 2,017 | 996 |
| 4 | October 26, 2017 16:15 | October 26, 2017 18:30 | 2h 15m | 1,578 | 1,216 |
| 5 | June 6, 2017 14:00 | June 6, 2017 21:15 | 7h 15m | 1,274 | 8,516 |
| 6 | May 27, 2017 23:00 | May 28, 2017 00:00 | 1h | 1,247 | 958 |
| 7 | December 14, 2017 15:00 | December 14, 2017 16:45 | 1h 45m | 1,193 | 2,088 |
| 8 | March 7, 2017 18:30 | March 8, 2017 01:30 | 7h | 736 | 1,321 |
| 9 | October 18, 2017 15:30 | October 18, 2017 19:15 | 3h 45m | 720 | 1,442 |
| 10 | May 16, 2017 11:15 | May 16, 2017 18:45 | 7h 30m | 712 | 2,254 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 80 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Otter Tail 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 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.24 | 1.8 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Wadena - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Henning - (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 ÷ 43,936 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. Otter Tail County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otter Tail 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/otter-tail-county