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2017 Todd County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Todd County, MN went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 47K customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1176th 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 Todd 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 | March 7, 2017 17:45 | March 8, 2017 06:00 | 12h 15m | 2,547 | 1,711 |
| 2 | March 14, 2017 14:00 | March 14, 2017 15:45 | 1h 45m | 1,929 | 1,848 |
| 3 | June 14, 2017 03:30 | June 14, 2017 05:45 | 2h 15m | 1,603 | 3,607 |
| 4 | September 20, 2017 06:15 | September 21, 2017 09:30 | 1d 3h | 1,052 | 6,444 |
| 5 | July 6, 2017 09:00 | July 6, 2017 16:30 | 7h 30m | 837 | 1,454 |
| 6 | July 21, 2017 23:00 | July 22, 2017 00:15 | 1h 15m | 752 | 940 |
| 7 | May 1, 2017 10:15 | May 1, 2017 13:00 | 2h 45m | 751 | 1,873 |
| 8 | June 26, 2017 16:15 | June 26, 2017 20:15 | 4h | 612 | 2,448 |
| 9 | July 17, 2017 20:45 | July 19, 2017 00:30 | 1d 3h | 608 | 3,069 |
| 10 | September 17, 2017 12:30 | September 18, 2017 19:30 | 1d 7h | 599 | 5,743 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 37 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Todd 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 |
| 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 |
| Stearns Cooperative Elec Assn | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 0.91 | 78 min | 0.77 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2017 | 3.1 hrs | 0.81 | 67 min | 0.55 |
| City of Staples- (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 ÷ 13,003 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. Todd County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Todd 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/todd-county