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2017 Wilkin County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Wilkin County, MN went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 6,415 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1609th 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 Wilkin 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 | October 26, 2017 16:30 | October 27, 2017 02:00 | 9h 30m | 582 | 1,491 |
| 2 | July 25, 2017 16:45 | July 25, 2017 17:00 | 15m | 537 | 134 |
| 3 | June 14, 2017 01:15 | June 15, 2017 23:00 | 1d 21h | 221 | 1,758 |
| 4 | October 2, 2017 16:45 | October 2, 2017 19:00 | 2h 15m | 202 | 163 |
| 5 | August 24, 2017 17:30 | August 24, 2017 20:45 | 3h 15m | 201 | 357 |
| 6 | May 27, 2017 23:00 | May 28, 2017 00:15 | 1h 15m | 179 | 179 |
| 7 | June 16, 2017 18:00 | June 16, 2017 20:15 | 2h 15m | 179 | 48 |
| 8 | September 11, 2017 16:45 | September 11, 2017 17:30 | 45m | 179 | 111 |
| 9 | September 28, 2017 13:45 | September 28, 2017 22:15 | 8h 30m | 135 | 169 |
| 10 | August 11, 2017 15:00 | August 11, 2017 17:15 | 2h 15m | 134 | 302 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 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 Wilkin 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 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 2.08 | 2.0 hrs | 1.19 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Breckenridge- (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 ÷ 3,109 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. Wilkin County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Wilkin 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/wilkin-county