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2017 Yellow Medicine County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Yellow Medicine County, MN went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 4,590 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1636th 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 Yellow Medicine 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 | May 17, 2017 01:30 | May 17, 2017 05:15 | 3h 45m | 1,077 | 2,108 |
| 2 | June 11, 2017 12:00 | June 12, 2017 16:45 | 1d 4h | 251 | 1,090 |
| 3 | June 9, 2017 02:15 | June 9, 2017 09:30 | 7h 15m | 118 | 459 |
| 4 | June 10, 2017 13:00 | June 10, 2017 19:00 | 6h | 54 | 167 |
| 5 | July 11, 2017 22:15 | July 12, 2017 02:30 | 4h 15m | 44 | 141 |
| 6 | September 22, 2017 20:15 | September 22, 2017 21:45 | 1h 30m | 44 | 66 |
| 7 | September 22, 2017 23:00 | September 23, 2017 02:15 | 3h 15m | 44 | 143 |
| 8 | April 22, 2017 20:15 | April 22, 2017 23:45 | 3h 30m | 33 | 100 |
| 9 | June 17, 2017 18:00 | June 17, 2017 21:00 | 3h | 22 | 66 |
| 10 | July 18, 2017 15:30 | July 18, 2017 16:15 | 45m | 15 | 11 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Yellow Medicine 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 |
| H-D Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 2.61 | 65 min | 0.88 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | - | 51 min | - |
| Lyon-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc. | 2017 | 1.5 hrs | 1.37 | 1.5 hrs | 1.37 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Granite Falls - (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 ÷ 2,324 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. Yellow Medicine County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Yellow Medicine 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/yellow-medicine-county