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2018 Clay County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Clay County, MN went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2143rd 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 Clay 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 6, 2018 05:45 | June 6, 2018 14:15 | 8h 30m | 2,599 | 5,488 |
| 2 | May 17, 2018 15:30 | May 17, 2018 17:15 | 1h 45m | 2,527 | 3,053 |
| 3 | May 18, 2018 22:30 | May 18, 2018 23:30 | 1h | 2,527 | 1,896 |
| 4 | May 1, 2018 07:00 | May 1, 2018 14:45 | 7h 45m | 2,526 | 7,601 |
| 5 | March 19, 2018 22:30 | March 20, 2018 01:30 | 3h | 2,523 | 4,658 |
| 6 | August 14, 2018 00:00 | August 14, 2018 01:45 | 1h 45m | 886 | 1,551 |
| 7 | July 3, 2018 03:45 | July 3, 2018 06:00 | 2h 15m | 754 | 1,484 |
| 8 | October 28, 2018 02:00 | October 28, 2018 03:15 | 1h 15m | 733 | 735 |
| 9 | July 4, 2018 10:00 | July 4, 2018 16:45 | 6h 45m | 646 | 2,068 |
| 10 | June 29, 2018 10:00 | June 29, 2018 15:15 | 5h 15m | 571 | 1,580 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 17 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Clay 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 |
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2018 | 3.9 hrs | 2.95 | 2.2 hrs | 1.26 |
| Red River Valley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 | 2.7 hrs | 0.84 |
| City of Moorhead - (MN) | 2018 | 24 min | 1.55 | - | - |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Barnesville - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hawley Public Utilities 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 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 26,598 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. Clay County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Clay 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/clay-county