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2017 Redwood County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Redwood County, MN went without power for an average of 0.4 hours, a total of 3,397 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2345th 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 Redwood 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 17, 2017 05:30 | August 17, 2017 21:00 | 15h 30m | 988 | 2,530 |
| 2 | October 31, 2017 19:45 | October 31, 2017 21:45 | 2h | 345 | 548 |
| 3 | July 10, 2017 04:15 | July 10, 2017 08:15 | 4h | 89 | 186 |
| 4 | August 14, 2017 01:30 | August 14, 2017 08:00 | 6h 30m | 8 | 31 |
| 5 | December 18, 2017 17:30 | December 18, 2017 19:30 | 2h | 8 | 11 |
| 6 | July 10, 2017 13:30 | July 10, 2017 21:30 | 8h | 7 | 21 |
| 7 | April 23, 2017 09:00 | April 23, 2017 11:30 | 2h 30m | 3 | 4 |
| 8 | April 23, 2017 22:45 | April 24, 2017 01:00 | 2h 15m | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | April 24, 2017 19:00 | April 24, 2017 21:45 | 2h 45m | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | April 15, 2017 04:30 | April 15, 2017 07:00 | 2h 30m | 2 | 5 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 2 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 Redwood 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 | - |
| South Central Electric Assn | 2017 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 | 1.7 hrs | 0.93 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2017 | 68 min | 0.62 | 68 min | 0.62 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Electric Coop | - | - | - | - | - |
| Redwood Falls Public Util Comm | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 7,964 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. Redwood County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Redwood 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/redwood-county