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2018 Cass County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cass County, MN went without power for an average of 5.2 hours, a total of 125K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 1003rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cass County, 2018
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 11, 2018 15:00 | June 11, 2018 17:15 | 2h 15m | 1,998 | 508 |
| 2 | September 18, 2018 14:00 | September 18, 2018 19:15 | 5h 15m | 1,953 | 7,821 |
| 3 | October 3, 2018 23:45 | October 4, 2018 19:15 | 19h 30m | 1,855 | 7,096 |
| 4 | June 28, 2018 18:00 | July 1, 2018 14:30 | 2d 20h | 1,565 | 12K |
| 5 | March 5, 2018 19:00 | March 5, 2018 22:30 | 3h 30m | 1,493 | 1,591 |
| 6 | July 4, 2018 12:00 | July 5, 2018 01:15 | 13h 15m | 1,267 | 5,599 |
| 7 | June 6, 2018 05:00 | June 6, 2018 07:00 | 2h | 1,161 | 2,255 |
| 8 | December 28, 2018 00:45 | December 28, 2018 09:30 | 8h 45m | 1,159 | 2,500 |
| 9 | May 29, 2018 20:45 | May 30, 2018 20:30 | 23h 45m | 1,007 | 8,202 |
| 10 | July 12, 2018 04:30 | July 13, 2018 02:30 | 22h | 976 | 8,264 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 74 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Cass County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | 1.30 | 1.7 hrs | 1.23 |
| ALLETE, Inc. | 2018 | 2.6 hrs | 1.49 | 2.2 hrs | 1.39 |
| Lake Country Power | 2018 | 12.7 hrs | 2.92 | 3.7 hrs | 1.91 |
| Todd-Wadena Electric Coop | 2018 | 2.4 hrs | 0.70 | 2.4 hrs | 0.68 |
| Beltrami Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| Itasca-Mantrap Co-op Electrical Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 | 1.7 hrs | 1.01 |
| Crow Wing Cooperative Power & Light Comp | 2018 | 86 min | 0.73 | 74 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 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 23,771 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. Cass County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cass County, MN annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/minnesota/cass-county