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2017 Pope County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pope County, MN went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 7,341 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1945th 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 Pope 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 22, 2017 20:00 | June 22, 2017 22:45 | 2h 45m | 893 | 1,563 |
| 2 | June 14, 2017 03:00 | June 14, 2017 04:00 | 1h | 361 | 266 |
| 3 | September 15, 2017 19:30 | September 16, 2017 00:45 | 5h 15m | 278 | 79 |
| 4 | June 11, 2017 14:15 | June 13, 2017 03:30 | 1d 13h | 179 | 2,625 |
| 5 | July 26, 2017 01:45 | July 26, 2017 06:45 | 5h | 119 | 591 |
| 6 | November 4, 2017 23:15 | November 5, 2017 04:00 | 4h 45m | 78 | 365 |
| 7 | November 5, 2017 05:00 | November 5, 2017 10:15 | 5h 15m | 78 | 410 |
| 8 | June 26, 2017 12:15 | June 26, 2017 13:15 | 1h | 77 | 58 |
| 9 | June 1, 2017 17:30 | June 1, 2017 18:45 | 1h 15m | 71 | 89 |
| 10 | July 11, 2017 23:45 | July 12, 2017 15:30 | 15h 45m | 54 | 402 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 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 Pope 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 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.03 | 80 min | 0.84 |
| Agralite Electric Coop | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.40 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 0.91 | 78 min | 0.77 |
| Kandiyohi Power Coop | 2017 | 9.2 hrs | 1.99 | 56 min | 0.70 |
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 ÷ 5,930 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. Pope County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pope 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/pope-county